Burnham House

Burnham House is an early 18th-century house, rebuilt and extended later in the 18th century. The main gable end faces the street, with a heavily pointed rubble extension. The north-west front is brick with stone quoins, a band over the ground floor, a plinth, and a moulded eaves cornice (a stone section and a wooden section). The original front, dating to the early 18th century, was three windows wide, and the matching two-window extension, added in the mid-18th century, incorporated the quoins of the original house into its facade. The thatched roof was replaced with tiles. Near-flush framed, multi-paned sash windows are set within flat arches, with one window blocked. The ground floor has two three-light bay windows with dentil cornices over reel moulding. A pilastered doorway sits below the second window from the right, with the cornice extending to the right-hand window. The door is panelled with six raised and fielded panels. An attic window is in the gable of the original part of the house, and a lower gable is present in the two-story rubble extension, which contains former stables that have been converted and heightened. A shallow open pediment sits above the doorcase, flanked by sash windows. A further slate-roofed extension, with a coach entrance, extends to the south-east. The interior includes a fine panelled room on the ground floor. Burnham House forms a group with numbers 22 Horsefair Green and 34 Silver Street.