Little Burlees Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Little Burlees Farmhouse and attached barn is a house dating from 1637, with alterations to a cross-wing in the late 17th century, a porch of 1733, and an attached barn built in the mid-18th century with early 19th-century modifications. The earliest section is built of large dressed stone, while the later wing is of thin coursed rubble stone with ashlar quoins, all under a stone slate roof. The south-west front has five divisions. The house is arranged with a three-room plan and a projecting parlour wing, along with a porch (containing a through passage) to form an “F” plan. The western wing features a plinth and a double-chamfered mullioned window of six lights (lacking three mullions), with a mullioned and transomed window of ten lights above, both with a hoodmould incorporating decorative label stops. A coped gable with kneelers tops the wing. The return wall has a former two-light window, now a doorway with decorative label stops, one carved with a face. The main housebody boasts an impressive 18-light mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor. Above it is a stepped window of four over six lights. A two-storey gabled porch, similar in style to New House on Hall Bank Lane, has raised rusticated quoins, a semi-circular arched doorway with a dropped keystone and moulded impost, a moulded recess for a tablet inscribed "C" (representing the Cockcroft family), and a blocked oval window in the apex. The inner doorway has a depressed Tudor arched lintel with a stop-chamfered surround and the inscription “1 6 3 7”. The east side includes a chamfered mullioned window of five lights with a six-light window above, both lacking some mullions. The barn projects forward, with a gabled porch containing kneelers and a semi-circular arched cart entry; an inner cart entry has a square opening with a chamfered surround. A low building is attached at a right angle, with two segmental arched doorways. The rear of the barn features a semi-circular arched cart entry with an inner porch and chamfered mistal doorways in the re-entrant angle. At the rear of the house, the through-passage doorway has a depressed Tudor arch, roll moulded surround, and sunken spandrels. The kitchen wing has double-chamfered mullioned windows of six lights to the ground floor and four lights to the first floor, along with a gable stack. There are two other external stacks. Inside the main part of the house, there is a large fireplace with a segmental arch carried on corbelled jambs with a stop-chamfered surround and a cyma moulded shelf. The kitchen wing has a segmental arched fireplace with skewbacks and a moulded surround.