Burderop Park

Burderop Park is an early to mid-17th century house that was substantially altered in the 18th century, given a square plan and a third storey. It appears to have originally been designed around a courtyard. The house is three storeys high and has four and five bays. The exterior is cement-rendered with ashlar dressings and a moulded ashlar plinth. It has hipped roofs, a cornice, and a parapet. The windows are glazing bar sash windows with moulded surrounds and keystones. Upper floor windows have square moulded and eared surrounds. A central door is located on the east side, with a segmental pediment supported by consoles.

The garden front is three bays wide and features ground floor windows with rusticated surrounds, triple keystones, and segmental pediments. A central doorway, in a similar surround with a triangular pediment, is approached by steps with railings. First-floor windows have moulded surrounds and cornices on consoles, flanked by lead rainwater pipes. The west front, four bays wide, features a two-storey projecting crenellated bay (circa 1770) to the right of centre with three glazing bar sashes in 'Gibbs' surrounds. A central half-glazed door has an ashlar band over it. A projecting wing is located to the north-west.

The interior contains mid-18th century features, including a main staircase. A room to the left of the entrance door has 17th century oak panelling and a simple ceiling decoration of the same date. A room on the garden front, incorporating the entrance doorway, has an enriched early 17th century plaster ceiling with a frieze, a marble fireplace with an eaved architrave and open pediment featuring fruit and a central panel with a female face in relief. This fireplace is placed over a mid-17th century Tudor arch type fireplace. One upstairs room has a painted coat of arms of William Calley dated 1663 over a fireplace. Recent works have revealed painted decoration in a number of other rooms, particularly on the first floor, including animals, scenery, and heads used as capitals for painted pilasters. The south-west room incorporates re-used strapwork carving in its masonry, and the room to its north has Jacobean-style panelling painted on the wall. This room also features a Tudor arch fireplace with marbled sides, a painted mantel, and a painted allegorical scene above the mantel. Several mid-17th century stopped ovolo-moulded square-headed door surrounds have also been revealed. A section of a newel stair survives in the centre of the north front, indicating a former stair turret. The principal staircase is top-lit and made of oak, with three turned balusters per tread, a cut and carved string, a moulded handrail, and a slender pilaster in the centre of three walls with a criss-cross pattern within the panels. The stair appears to be situated within an earlier courtyard, and the back door into the bay on the west side is pointed and studded and dated 1775. A notable later 18th century roof structure features heavy beams running parallel to the ridge, supported by posts from tiebeams, braced from below, and supporting struts to each pair of rafters.