Burstock Grange

Burstock Grange is a farmhouse dating back to around the 15th century, with significant remodelling in the early 17th century, alterations in the 18th century, and an extension in the early to mid-19th century. The walls are built of dressed stone, with a base of flint rubble. The roof is thatched on the right-hand side and covered with asbestos tiles on the left. There are four brick chimneys, one at the left gable, one in the left-centre, a stone double axial stack with a cornice at the right-centre dating to around 1700, and one at the right gable.

Originally, the house comprised three rooms and a through-passage, designed with the higher end to the south, open to the roof from end to end, and divided by low partitions and heated by an open-hearth fire. In the early 17th century, floors were inserted, and a stack was built in the through-passage, creating back-to-back fireplaces to heat the hall and the lower north end. Around the early 18th century, the high end of the hall was partitioned off to form an entrance passage/stairhall, with a staircase in a projection at the rear. An isolated cottage was added to the lower north end in the early to mid-19th century. A fire destroyed the medieval roof over the lower end in approximately 1921.

The exterior is two stories, with an eight-window front – a range of three, four, and five-light stone mullions with hollow chamfers. Windows have stone labels above the ground floor openings. The upper windows are wooden casements with stone voussoirs, wooden cills, and lintels. Two porches are located to the left of the centre and right of the centre, with stone walls, round-arch entrances, gable copings, and ball finials, dating to the 18th and 20th centuries. The rear staircase bay features two-light ovolo stone mullions.

Inside, the kitchen has deeply chamfered cross-beams with hollow-step stops at one end and a large fireplace with ashlar jambs and a cambered timber bressumer with run-out stops. The hall has a large ashlar fireplace with an unchamfered timber bressumer. The parlour features a stone gable-end fireplace with a chamfered Tudor arch with bar stops to the jambs. 18th-century joinery includes fielded six-panel doors and an early 18th-century open-well staircase with turned balusters, a heavy-moulded handrail, and square newels. A 17th-century six-panel door on the first floor has scratch-moulded rails and stiles, wrought-iron hinges, and a carved arcaded frieze above. Four bays of the 15th-century roof remain over the hall and upper end of the house, featuring three trusses blackened by smoke. The roof includes cruck-trusses with cranked collars, trenched purlins, and a diagonal ridgepiece; intact common-rafters, straight short braces under the collars of the hall truss, scarf joints on the upper ends of the principals of the hall truss, birdsmouth joints to the upper purlins over the high end bay, and replaced purlins over the lower end bay.