Burton Court

SO 45 NW EARDISLAND CP -

4/43 Burton Court

20.2.53

GV II*

Country house. C14, remodelled.c1808, restored c1865 by F Kempson and again in 1912 by Clough Williams Ellis. Timber-frame, clad and extended in stuccoed brick and ashlar under a tile roof. North-east front has a mid-C19 cross-wing to right, then the C14 great hall, with C20 porch and range to left. C19 range to right has a segmental plan, two-storey bay window, with three plate glass sashes. Hall to left has two windows of early C20, that to right of 3 by 3 lights, that to left four lights wide by three high, both with stone mullion and transoms. The porch to the left is also early C20 with a shaped gable bearing a sun-burst design over a moulded cornice. The first floor has stone cross window over the inscription "PLC & EEC". The entrance is flanked by Doric pilasters rising to a moulded entablature in the centre of which is set an elliptical window. The entrance below has a moulded architrave and semi-circular head. The panelled door with its semi-circular head has a centrally placed winged cherub's head. Interior has a semi-circular plan stair hall of the early C19 (date of 1808 on a bell to rear) with cantilevered stair which has a wrought iron balustrade. Great hall roof of five bays with arch-braced collar trusses. Two tiers of purlins with cusped wind-braces. Lateral stack on rear wall has an overmantel with two tiers of arcaded panelling and bearing the date 1654. (RCHM, 3, p 47, no 3; BoE, p 120; Guide Book, 1986 edition).

Listing NGR: SO4228457190