Spring House

This is a house with origins in the 18th century, significantly altered in the early 19th century and again in the mid-19th century when it was modified and extended for Joseph and Isaac Burkill. The front of the house is constructed of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, while the rear consists of coursed limestone rubble with red brick dressings to the earlier section, and yellow brick dressings to the later. The earlier section has a pantile roof, and the later section has a slate roof.

The house is roughly square in shape and comprised of a main, L-shaped range. This range contains a two-room north front with a large central entrance/stair hall, and a two-room west Garden Front with a central entrance hall. An older kitchen and outshut are located at the rear of the north section.

The north front is two storeys high and has three bays, displaying a symmetrical facade. There are two stone steps leading to a part-glazed panelled door, which is set under a radial fanlight within a panelled reveal. The door is framed by a Doric doorcase with engaged pilasters supporting a plain entablature and dentilled open pediment. Flanking the door are single tripartite windows, each with a central 12-pane sash and narrow side sashes divided by pilasters, all set within segmental rubbed brick arches. Five 12-pane flush sashes are on the first floor, with sandstone cills and channelled and keyed stone lintels; the second and fifth windows from the left are dummies and there are five rectangular recessed panels above. The roof is hipped, with an end stack to the left and a mid-roof stack to the right.

The right return forms the Garden Front and is also two storeys high with three bays, displaying symmetry. Angle pilasters are present, and the central bay projects forward. A flat-roofed Doric porch features fluted columns and a plain entablature above a part-glazed panelled door with margin lights in a panelled reveal. Large, three-light bow windows are on either side, with margin lights and projecting cills. Pilasters support a frieze with plaster wreaths, a moulded cornice, and a hood. Three 12-pane sashes are on the first floor, with stone cills and wedge lintels, each flanked by pairs of louvred wooden shutters. A moulded brick cornice sits atop the pilasters and the centrally projecting bay, and a projecting parapet is raised over the central bay, with a coved cornice and flat stone coping.

The entrance/stair hall features an open well staircase with a wreathed handrail, ornate cast-iron newel, and turned balusters. Ornate plasterwork is located beneath the landing, and there are two Italianate plaster figures, approximately two-thirds life size, on moulded corbels above the stairs. The main rooms have a moulded cornice and fluted pilasters to the ground floor windows. Adam-style composition chimney pieces are found in the south-west Drawing Room and north-east Dining Room. Ornate plaster pelmets are present on the bow windows. Fielded-and-beaded-panel doors, panelled window shutters, and architraves are found throughout the house.