Burnt House

Burnt House is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house has three bays facing east, positioned at right angles to the road, and features a central stack. It is one storey high with attics, and there is a two-storey extension from the 19th century to the right. A 20th-century lean-to extension at the rear of the original house is roofed with slate, replacing a similar but lower extension from the 18th or 19th century.

On the ground floor, there are two late 19th-century sash windows with marginal lights and one 20th-century casement window. The first floor has three similar late 19th-century sash windows, two of which are located in gabled dormers. The house has a 20th-century door and a half-hipped roof at the left end. Inside, there are chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops found only in the right bay, and two wood-burning hearths made of 0.23 metre brickwork, which are blocked in the left bay. The tiebeams are cambered, and the framing of the dormers suggests they are original. Burnt House is first mentioned under its current name in a deed from 1696, located in the Essex Record Office.