Longburton House

Longburton House is a large house dating from 1908-9 and designed by M H Baillie Scott for Mr Edward Bartlett. The construction incorporated a significant amount of reused material from demolished buildings across the local area, including stonework from Yetminster, Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Martock, and Tintinhull. The house is built of coursed rubble-stone walls with ashlar quoins, and features a stone slate roof with stone gable-copings to the main ridges and dormers, and moulded kneelers. Stone stacks are visible on the back wall of the south range, west of the entrance porch, which features a projecting embrasure; at the centre of the south ridge; and on the north ridge, originally serving the kitchen. A wooden bellcote sits on the roof above the entrance hall.

The house is arranged in a roughly L-shaped layout, with reception rooms in the south range and originally extensive service areas in the north range. The front entrance is located in the angle of the L. The south elevation is 1½ storeys high and has four windows and a south porch positioned to the left of centre. These windows are mullioned, with hollow-chamfered stone mullions, metal casements, and lead lights. The arrangement is a 4-light window, subsequently converted into a French window, a 7-light window, with a transom – a later alteration lowered the cill, and a 5-light window. Two gabled dormers are positioned over each of the first three window lights at the east end. The gabled south porch is two storeys high, featuring an entrance with moulded jambs and a depressed-arch head, leading to a plank-and-muntin door. A sundial, dated I.G.E. 1700 and originally from Pennard Hill, is positioned above the entrance. The east elevation has an irregular gabling pattern and five mullioned windows. A stone entrance porch is situated in the angle, one storey high with a square parapet and a plank door. The west side of the service range features a small staircase tower at the centre left, and a projecting dairy (originally) at the north-west corner.

Inside, the drawing room retains the full complement of 17th-century squared moulded panelling from Old Court Farm, Batcombe, alongside an open fireplace with straight-chamfered jambs and lintel. The breakfast room features ceiling-beams divided into 12 compartments, and a cored-and-timbered cornice at the north end of the room, with the coring work completed by Baillie Scott. The hall has 16th-century linenfold panelling. A 20th-century staircase, designed in a Queen Anne style, is also present.