Burnt Oak

Burnt Oak is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled thatch roof with a stone ridge stack that has a moulded cornice. The building has a three-unit plan with a through-passage and stands two storeys high, presenting a three-window range.

Notable architectural features include roll-stopped scallop-carved timber lintels above a studded door set in a chamfered heavy pegged frame, as well as early 17th-century three-light ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned windows. The ground-floor window on the right has leaded lights, while the other windows have 19th-century casements, and the mullions have been removed from the ground-floor windows on the left. There are similar two-light leaded windows on the left gables and one at the rear.

The rear of the building has a stair outshut that adjoins a 20th-century rear left wing, and a mid-19th-century rear right service wing with a stone slate roof. There is also a 20th-century lean-to porch featuring a reset 17th-century plank door.

Inside, the right room has a roll-stopped chamfered beam, while the passage features a stop-chamfered beam. The central room has a 17th-century ribbed door with an old lock, a fine fireplace with a mid-18th-century panelled surround, and a 19th-century arched head over a 17th-century roll-stopped bressumer, along with mid-18th-century panelled shutters. The left room contains an open fireplace beam and a 17th-century plant door leading to the rear. A 17th-century winder staircase with an 18th-century trellised balustrade is located at the top.

On the first floor, there is a 17th-century ribbed door to the left room, which features an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer and a 17th-century spice cupboard with butterfly hinges and lozenge carving. The roof is a collar-truss type with butt purlins. Although the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments suggests a late 17th-century date, comparisons with similar buildings indicate an early 17th-century date.