Burshill Manor

House. Built around the early 16th century, with significant remodelling and an extension in the late 17th century, and further alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is constructed of cob and stone rubble, mostly whitewashed and rendered, with a projecting stone lateral stack at the rear, featuring a tall brick shaft. Slate roofs are gabled at the ends, with chimneys of local brick. Evidence suggests an early 16th century two-bay open hall at the right end of the main range. The rear lateral stack to the left of the open hall may also date to the late 16th century. The hall was likely ceiled over, and a gable end stack was added in the late 17th century, along with evidence of a former newel stair to the first floor. A late 17th century wing projects from the front on the left, likely serving as service rooms with accommodation above. A gable end chimney on this wing was dismantled in the early 20th century, creating an L-shaped plan. The front façade has an asymmetrical arrangement of four windows. A wide, circa late 18th century, half-glazed front door has three panels below a middle rail, topped by a rectangular fanlight with marginal glazing and a central lozenge-shaped pane. A transomed three-light window with leaded panes illuminates the hall on the ground floor. A circa late 18th century two-light sliding sash window with nine panes per light is on the first floor to the left. To the right of the front door is a 20th century four-pane sash window, followed by two 20th century casements with two panes per light. A further six-light early 20th century casement with three panes per light is on the right side of the first floor. A chamber in the left wing previously had a row of nine late 17th century lights with leaded panes; the central three lights are now missing and blocked, although stanchions remain. Internally, a ground floor room on the right, likely a late 17th century kitchen, is now an undivided passage and hall, with a slate floor. The fireplace to the lateral stack features a large unhewn fireplace beam. The right gable end fireplace has ashlar masonry with an ovolo-moulded stopped fireplace beam. The axial stack in the wing has a large fireplace with a repaired ovolo-moulded fireplace beam, and the first floor fireplace in the gable end of the wing also features an ovolo-moulded fireplace beam. The roof over the right end of the main range is smoke-blackened, originally featuring threaded purlins to principals and collars halved and pegged, with a diagonally-set ridge, which is now missing. A 19th century roof sits above the blackened roof. The wing roof has trusses with cambered collars halved and pegged to principals and trenched purlins. A whitewashed cob wall on a stone plinth projects south from the right of the front, creating a front courtyard. Burshill Manor was inherited by sixteen successive owners named John Bryant.