Eastbrook Farmhouse

BURLESCOMBE ST 01 NE 5/4 Eastbrook Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. Probably mid C17. Plastered stone rubble, maybe with cob; stone rubble stack and chimneyshaft, now extended with C20 brick; concrete tile roof, formerly thatch. Plan: 3-room plan house facing south-east. The small left end room is unheated and may have been a dairy originally but has since been converted to an entrance hall with the main staircase. An axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces is set between the two main rooms. The centre room was probably the original kitchen and the right end room was the parlour. There is a lobby entrance in front of the stack. Outshots to rear of the former kitchen and dairy may be integral. Main house is 2 storeys and 2-storey C20 extension to rear of right room. Exterior: irregular 5-window front of early C20 casements with glazing bars. The main front doorway is right of centre and now contains a C20 door behind a contemporary gabled porch. Secondary doorway at left end also contains a C20 door behind a contemporary porch. The plaster on the front is incised as ashlar. Roof is gable-ended. To rear the roof is carried down over the early outshots and there is here a Cl7 oak 4-light window with chamfered mullions. Interior: only a limited internal inspection was available at the time of this survey. The centre room has a soffit-chamfered crossbeam with pyramid stops and the right room crossbeam has rough soffit-chamfers. Both fireplaces are blocked by C20 grates. The roof was not available for inspection. Although the house was modernised in the early C20 the work appears to have been superficial.

Listing NGR: ST0766817485