Burstone Manor House

Burstone Manor House is a manor house, now a private residence, dating from the 12th century, likely from the first half. It was altered and extended in the 15th century and mid 17th century, and recased in the early to mid 19th century. The building features a timber frame with white-painted weatherboarding and a plain tile roof.

The front of the house has a projecting gable end on the left side. To the right, there is a cross passage and two bays of a former aisled hall, which can be dated by a scalloped capital embedded in a first-floor partition wall. The aisles have been removed, likely when the hall was floored over in the 16th to 17th centuries. The front aisle probably aligned with the left gable end, where the original 15th-century wall is preserved. The house has two storeys and five sash windows. There is a 20th-century door set in a 19th-century moulded frame with shaped brackets and a flat hood. To the right of the door is a shallow canted sash bay with five sashes.

The rear elevation features a 16th-century red brick casing on the hall section and a 15th to 16th-century four-centred arch door on the right, with chamfered spandrels and three vertical panels. On the left end at the rear, there is a mid-17th-century gabled projection with a floor band and an attached chimney stack, along with single ground and first-floor windows with plain brick frames. The central part of the elevation has two recessed sash windows.

Inside the house, there is a notable 15th-century screens passage behind the door, and two four-centred doors opening from the service end. The front room of this end displays holes from a two-light 15th to 16th-century diamond mullioned window. Two trusses from the aisled hall are exposed on the upper floor, both featuring long passing braces. The upper wall of the landings showcases geometrical relief plasterwork from the mid-17th century.