Bournehouse Farmhouse

Bournehouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with substantial rebuilding in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of timber framing with painted brick and rendered infill panels, alongside painted and roughcast brick, and has plain tiled roofs. A large external brick stack is located at the rear of the main range, with two smaller external brick stacks at the front and rear of the original section. The house follows a hall and cross-wing plan, with the hall range running east to west and a cross-wing at the east gable end. The hall range was rebuilt in brick, incorporating one bay with a lower bay at the west gable. The original cross-wing consists of two framed bays and is primarily two storeys with an attic. The rebuilt range features a dentilled eaves cornice. The cross-wing's timber framing displays four square panels from sill to wall-plate, with short straight braces in the upper corners. It also has tie-beam trusses in the gable ends, incorporating two collars, queen struts, and V-struts at the apex. On the front elevation, the rebuilt range has ground and first-floor 3-light casement windows with cambered heads. A wide doorway, adjacent to the cross-wing, features an open pediment resting on consoles, and a 6-panelled door, with the two upper panels glazed. A ground floor casement with a cambered head is present in the adjoining left wing. A verandah, supported by timber posts with small, shaped brackets, extends across the full width of the main section and left wing. The cross-wing's gable end has a 2-light ground and first-floor casement, along with an attic light. A continuous plank weathering runs above the ground floor windows. Internally, the cross-wing roof has two rows of trenched purlins and an intermediate collar-and-tie-beam truss with queen struts. A room at the rear of the cross-wing on the ground floor contains 17th-century panelling with an upper frieze, and a Tudor-arched doorhead leads into the room above. Later additions, including mid-19th and mid-20th century lean-to structures, are situated at the rear.