Burrell House is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1952. A Post-Medieval House.
Burrell House
- WRENN ID
- waning-keystone-wren
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Burrell House, Saltash
- OS grid reference
- SX 396 584
- Coordinates
- 50.40367, -4.25848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burrell House is an important early 17th-century house, likely built on the site of an earlier structure, as indicated by datestones from 1621 and 1636. The main front was remodeled around 1800 and features rubble construction with granite quoins and dressings, mostly covered in slate. The house is two storeys high with six windows, which include glazing bar sashes, and has a modillion eaves cornice and a hipped slate roof. There is a small closed porch with a square domed roof and Doric columns located off-centre to the left. The front is shallow and predominantly slate hung, while the rest of the building is made of rubble with a slate roof and irregular chimneys.
At the rear, the house has a half H plan, with the central part being taller and two storeys high. This section features two four-light mullion and transom windows on the ground floor with drips, and two later glazing bar sash windows on the first floor. There is a central panel with a carved coat of arms and drip, flanked by doorways; the left-hand doorway has an elliptical head and drip with the initials "MB" on the stops and in the spandrels. The projecting wings have been altered; the left wing leads to an animal shed (with a dove cot on the first floor), while the right wing contains two and a half storeys of domestic accommodation with two windows each, featuring mullions and sashes.
Inside, the main staircase is wide and leads through a Tudor arch doorway into the first-floor great hall, which now has an open roof with arch-braced collars. The ceiling was previously segmental and adorned with ornamental plasterwork, which is now housed in Plymouth City Museum. The ornamental plaster ceiling on the ground floor is currently very damaged, and one room retains a possible replica frieze dated 1621. Most of the interior of the house has undergone later remodellings.
Local climate
Burrell House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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