Bourne Orchard

House. Dating back to the 16th or early 17th century, Bourne Orchard has undergone extensions and alterations, including a symmetrical appearance created in the 19th century, and a southeastern wing and roof windows added around 1908. The house is timber-framed with a red brick sill, with roughcast painted walls and steep, old red tile roofs. It is a two-story building, four windows long, situated along a track facing west, with gables at each end of the front elevation. A central, gabled glazed porch is in line with an internal chimney, featuring diagonal shafts rising from a square base to form a cruciform shape. There are four two-story canted bay windows, each with horizontal divided casements and tiled roofs. Triple sash windows are found in each gable, and two hipped dormers at the eaves provide light to the upper parts of the first-floor rooms, which extend into the roof space. A sidelight to the bay window on the left of the porch illuminates a ground-floor room, marking the original hall. This hall was the middle room of the original two-story, three-cell house, based on a lobby-entry plan with a continuous front jetty, and likely included a gabled, unheated service bay to the north. The original plan incorporated four structural bays; the widest for the hall, the narrowest for the chimney and entrance lobby, where a staircase may have been located. The floor is supported by axial beams. Differences in brickwork and variations in sill height indicate that later changes included extending the northern bay by approximately 1.5 meters to the north and adding tall, external side-wall chimneys with three diagonal shafts. A matching gabled two-story bay was added as a new parlor at the southern end, creating a symmetrical front. A new dining room with a higher ground floor level was added to the rear of this southern wing around 1908, along with other rear extensions to provide additional light to the first floor through roof windows.