Burles Burles Cottage

Burles Burles Cottage is a building completed in 1937, designed by Harold Falkner. The design incorporates two timber-framed barns from Gloucestershire, which Falkner placed end to end. The south-east front showcases a long, continuous overhang formed by the barns; the timber framing, employing post-and-pen construction on the first floor, extends over a ground floor of stone rubble and brick. There are six windows on the ground floor, all mullioned with small leaded lights. The roof is low and steeply pitched, extending over a cantilevered attic storey at the south-west gable end. Below this, a wide splayed bay with mullioned windows, leaded lights, and a three-centred headed doorway on the ground floor is visible. To the right of the main structure is Burles Cottage, which projects forward to the south-east. It is also timber-framed above a brick sill. Facing north-east, the north-west side of Burles Cottage features two window bays and a six-panelled door. The roof descends to a lower level along the north-west entrance front, except at the left-hand (south-west) end where three conjoined gables of timber-framed construction display a coved cornice above a first floor, also timber-framed, which overhangs a ground floor and basement of brick and stone rubble with battered buttresses of brick. Small mullioned casement windows with leaded lights are present. Steps lead down to a round-headed six-panelled cellar door. From the cellar to the south-west end, the roof descends. Low post-and-pen timbering with continuous leaded lights are positioned below the eaves. A four-centred headed doorway is flanked by two-light leaded casements. A projection with a tall transomed and mullioned window rises high into the roof space, followed by a further gabled projection supporting a tall panelled chimney. Another small gable and a further window bay are situated at the south-western end. Set back along the entrance front is a stone wall containing niches and recesses, with steps leading up to the garden wall. Within the garden to the south-west, a series of steps traverse a semi-circular terrace of stone and flint rubble, leading to a semi-circular exedra.