Burge End Farmhouse

Burge End Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse that was refronted in brick during the late 18th century. It has been extended at both ends, subdivided, and fireplaces added at a later date. The building is timber-framed with stuccoed sill, roughcast, and brick construction in a west wing. The roof is steeply pitched, covered with old red tiles, and hipped over the west end. Originally a two-cell building with an outshut, it is two storeys and has an attic, with a lobby entrance facing north into the farmyard. A gabled stair turret was added to the rear of the chimney. A two-storey west wing and a lean-to east extension also form part of the structure.

The north front is three windows wide, featuring a two-light flush casement window on the first floor and a three-light window on the ground floor (with two lights to the left-hand side). The west wing is constructed of red brick, chequered with black brick over a roughcast apron and plinth. The main entrance, located in the middle of the roughcast section, has an early 19th-century five-panel flush beaded door with a fielded cross-panel in the middle, a reeded surround with corner blocks, and a flat hood supported on shaped brackets.

The original plan consists of a parlour in one room and a hall/kitchen in the other, with an outshut at the rear that contains a wide fireplace and a domed brick oven. Interior features include axial beams, exposed framing with close-spaced studs, and long straight tension braces cut into the backs of studs and straight wind braces. The original staircase has a closed string, square newels with half-balusters, symmetrical balusters, a heavy rounded handrail, and obelisk finials. There are massive posts and straight braces to the tie-beams. On the first floor, a chamfered brick fireplace is found in the chamber above the parlour, featuring a depressed four-centred head and a blocked three-light south window with an exposed timber frame. A blocked three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window with iron intermediate bars is present on the south wall of the chamber above the hall. Moulded plank doors with iron hinges are also original. The roof is a clasped-purlin construction with thin, almost straight braces.