Burgh Hall

Burgh Hall is a manor house, dating from the late 15th century, likely built by the Ingoldsthorpe family. In the late 16th or early 17th century, a stack and floor were inserted into the open hall, and a rear wing was added during the 17th century, later replaced in 1967. The building exhibits timber framing with heavy scantling and close studding, with the rear wall and right-hand gable end rendered in plaster. The roof is covered in plain tiles and has a hipped design with gables at each end, potentially for a smoke channel. Eaves project over the two bays of the open hall, supported by brackets that replaced original features. A substantial ridge stack comprises three linked shafts, likely dating to the late 17th century. The building follows a Wealden plan, incorporating jettied end bays. It consists of five structural bays, including a two-bay hall, a two-bay service wing with a cross-passage, and a single-bay parlour end. The building is two storeys high, with the service and parlour ends featuring jetties supported by joists with shaped ends. There are six jetty brackets with chamfered edges, each resting on an original, attached, half-octagonal pilaster shaft topped with an embattled capital. Four C20 hung sashes are present in the hall, and two in each end bay. Within the hall, peg holes in the wall frame may indicate the former location of an oriel window. The original doorway, situated between the service end and the hall, retains partial original moulding to the architrave, although the head has been cut down. The left-hand gable displays curved downward bracing from posts to the middle rail and sill, and reveals the sites of three blocked windows, one of which originally featured diamond mullions. A C19 cast iron loggia is located at the rear of the property. Internally, the screen between the service bay and cross-passage has been removed, although mortice holes in a joist suggest its former placement. A portion of the ceiling was removed during the insertion of a staircase. Original partition walls, separating the service end and hall, remain intact in the roof and at ground and first floor levels, as do similar partitions dividing the parlour from the hall at all floor heights. The display truss above the hall features a double jowled head and a cambered tie beam, with peg holes for arch bracing from post to tie beam. The roof retains its original construction, including clasped, through purlins, rafters of large scantling, and fine paired ogee braces connecting the principals to the purlins; the purlins over the hall are stop chamfered. The building is situated on a moated site.