Friary Cottage

Friary Cottage is a medieval house located in Burnham Norton. The structure features a combination of flint, clunch, and stone dressings from its early construction, alongside flint and stone additions from the 20th century, all topped with a red pantiled roof. The building stands two storeys high with attics and has two windows on the east side, which incorporate remains of a domestic building from the 14th century associated with the Carmelite Friary. The west side, built in the second half of the 20th century, has two windows as well.

The north front retains early construction elements up to the first-floor window level, with limestone quoins and a kneeler marking the height of the original build, while brick courses above indicate later heightening. There are two ground floor and two first floor two-light casement windows from the 20th century. The 20th century addition also features a re-used 14th-century door embrasure and moulded arch, along with one ground floor and two first floor casements. The steeply pitched roof has two dormers.

On the east gable, the early build includes a massive north-east angle buttress made of cut stone with two set-offs, and two first floor stone fire windows with a central mullion. Above this, there is an 18th-century brick gable with two windows and tumbling, along with a 20th-century lean-to addition at the ground floor. The south front shows early construction with cut stone quoins and kneeler at the east end, and brick quoins at the west end, now with a straight joint. The clunch reaches the level of the kneeler at the east, while the west has brick infill. The south-east corner features a spiral staircase that remains in situ, and there is a blocked re-used 14th-century door arch attached at the south-east.