Little Burdon Cottage

MORTON PALMS STOCKTON ROAD NZ 31 NW (South side)

5/3 Little Burdon Cottage

II

Former farmhouse now cottage. Late C17 with later additions and alterations. Hand-made brick (partly rendered and painted on front and right return); pantiled roofs; rear wing has roof of ridged concrete tiles; rebuilt brick chimney stacks. Hearth-passage plan main block with wings on left return and at right-angles on right rear.

2-storey main block; 4 ground-floor openings and 3 above. Decorative brickwork: dentilled band between storeys; 2 raised lozenges on first floor; cogged eaves. Doorway at left into hearth passage has basket-arched head, raised keystone and impost blocks; similar doorway on rear. Altered openings elsewhere: later doorway at right flanked by 6-pane sashes; 24-pane horizontal-sliding sash and two late C20 casements above. Renewed steeply-pitched roof set below line of original roof. Ridge and left end stacks flanking hearth passage; stepped external chimney projecting on right return.

Single-storey, 2-bay wing at left has altered door and window openings, stepped eaves bands and steeply-pitched roof.

Projecting 2-storey stair bay on rear of main block has a blocked 2-light wood- mullioned window. 2-storey, 4-bay rear wing of 2 builds has altered openings and a steeply-pitched roof.

Listing NGR: NZ3287416391