Burnley House

BURNLEY

SD8332NE WESTGATE 906-1/15/153 (North side) 29/09/77 Nos.39, 41 AND 43 Burnley House

GV II

Terrace of 3 town houses, now integrated as residential nursing home. Early to mid C19; altered. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof hipped at right-hand end. Double-depth plan, each house double-fronted, plus a set-back receding wing at the right-hand end. 2 storeys over cellars, 3+3+3 windows, formerly symmetrical; with raised rusticated quoins and a moulded gutter cornice. Each house has a symmetrical facade with a large central doorway which has an Ionic architrave with engaged columns, plain frieze and moulded cornice, and a recessed panelled door with plain overlight (No.43 to the left now lacking the cornice); No.41 now has an enlarged window to the left at ground floor, otherwise, all the windows are vertical-rectangular with raised sills and plain surrounds, and all now with altered glazing. Coped gable and gable chimney to No.43, ridge chimney at junction of Nos 41 & 43 (both these chimneys corniced), and 2 other ridge chimneys cut down. Left gable wall of watershot masonry, with 4 windows at ground floor and one above, and an unusual horizontal gutter at carried on a corbel-table at eaves level (presumably to convey rainwater from the front gutter to a downspout at the rear). Receding wing at the right-hand end, single-storey, in similar style to front. C20 extensions to the rear. INTERIORS not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD8351632780