Burfield Lodge

Burfield Lodge is a large house built in the early 19th century and subsequently divided into three separate dwellings. It is constructed of painted render, with a hipped, slated mansard roof, the sides of which are finished with fishscale slating. The architectural style is French Renaissance. The house is rectangular in plan, featuring two square bay projections on the south-east side.

The exterior is two storeys and attics, incorporating several chimneys with clay pots and round arched dormers. Sash windows with glazing bars are set within moulded architraves. Architectural details include a plinth, a platband at the first-floor sill level, a blocking course, a moulded cornice and balustraded parapets. The south-west front, which serves as the entrance front, has seven bays, with a projecting three-bay centrepiece containing a central double door. The doors are largely glazed with sidelights and a rectangular fanlight, framed by reeded Tuscan columns and corresponding pilasters at the rear. One-bay sections flank the centrepiece, with a further recessed two-bay section on the left and a single-storey, one-bay extension to the left of this. The rear, or garden, front is symmetrical, with a three-bay design, a recessed centre section featuring a panelled door with sidelights, a small paned overlight, and a frieze decorated with swags and a tripartite window above at first-floor level.

The interior of the first house features a dog-leg staircase with curved iron balusters, with every fourth baluster coupled with a leaf ornament. An entrance hall contains four 4-panelled double doors with semicircular beads, vase and floral carved panels above, and egg and dart enrichment to the architraves. The drawing room has a rococo marble fireplace with floral enrichment and a ceiling decorated with rococo plasterwork and a moulded cornice. The second unit includes a dark coloured rococo marble fireplace with a hob grate and a cast-iron surround with floral embellishment.