Sinai Park

Farmhouse, possibly originally a summer house for the abbots of Burton. The core of the building likely dates from the early 16th century, with substantial remodelling in the mid-17th century and the late 19th century. It is timber framed on a stone plinth, featuring closely-spaced uprights (some replaced with brick) and diagonal struts to the gables. The infill panels are a mix of brick and lath and plaster, with brick and sandstone ashlar side stacks to the east. The roofs are tiled.

The building has a large U-shaped plan, open to the south, which is the main facade. Additions are set against the western limb. The original layout was likely of hall and cross wings, entered through a screens passage on the western side, but it has been substantially altered to include a central porch and upper storeys.

The south front of the central range is now two storeys and approximately two bays, largely of mid-17th century construction, with reused timbers. A large upper floor is canted slightly over the ground floor. There are four window openings to each floor, divided by a central, two-storey gabled porch. The porch was refaced and set back in the late 19th century, and original dragon beams are still visible. The entrance framing is missing, but a three-light 19th-century casement window remains on the first floor. The flanking wings are two storeys and attic, with gabled dormers on the courtyard sides. These wings have three structural bays marked by large diagonal braces (except on the southwest gable), set under the wall-plate and the ground-floor bressumer. The gables and first floor are slightly canted. The end gables are lit by central three-light casements, possibly formerly canted to the first floor. The fenestration on the courtyard elevations is largely from the late 19th century, though some restored openings and dormers reflect authentic designs. There are three dormers and three ground floor openings on the left wing, and two dormers and one first-floor opening on the right wing. Gabled additions, possibly from the late 17th century, have been built up against the west wing. The east and north sides feature extensive rebuilding in brick.

Inside, little evidence of the original hall plan survives, although a cross passage is likely. The upper end of the hall has a close-studded partition and one door with an ogee head. The ceiling features an ovolo-moulded beam. A 15th-century moulded beam remains, used as a wall plate, in the lower end of the hall. The eastern cross wing has a cross-wall with infill panels extending to under the roof line, a collar and tie frame, and an attic doorway within the truss. There are two trenched purlins to each side. The north fireplace in the east wing is stone-faced with radiused angles. A moulded 16th-century ceiling beam spans the same room, and a large ovolo-moulded dragon beam intersects the northeast corner.

The house commands a magnificent and prominent setting above the Trent Valley and Burton and is situated on an ancient site complete with a moat and chalybeate well. It was derelict at the time of a survey in 1984.