Great Burlees

Great Burlees is a house dating from the late 16th century, featuring a cross-wing and an added hall range, which together create a U-shaped plan with a rear kitchen wing added in the mid-17th century. The building is constructed from large dressed stone and has a stone slate roof. It stands two storeys high.

The west wing includes double chamfered mullioned windows with cavetto chamfered mullions, each having six lights on both floors, and is topped with hoodmoulds that have straight returns. The gable is coped with kneelers, and there is a tall lateral stack on the right-hand return wall next to a 19th-century porch that covers a 16th-century doorway with a stop chamfered surround. The hall features an impressive mullioned and transomed window with three king mullions and twenty lights (four of which are blocked). Above this is an eight-light mullioned and transomed window in a gabled attic dormer. The doorway in the through-passage has a depressed arched lintel and a stop chamfered surround, with a 19th-century two-light window inserted above it.

The east wing has ten-light mullioned and transomed windows on both floors, along with a string course and a coped gable with moulded kneelers. The right-hand return wall has a tall lateral stack and altered 19th-century two-light windows. The rear kitchen wing features a former four-light chamfered mullioned window with a three-light window above it, and it has a coped gable with a stack of 18th-century character, along with three other stacks.

Inside the west wing, there are finely reeded spine beams and floor joists. The kitchen wing contains a fireplace with a segmental arched lintel supported by corbelled jambs and a chamfered surround. Great Burlees is illustrated in A. Comfort's "Ancient Halls in and About Halifax" from 1913 and referenced by C. F. Stell.