Great Burridge Farmhouse

Great Burridge Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating to the 16th century, with significant rebuilding in the 17th century and rearrangement in the 19th century. The front of the house is plastered rubble, while the rest is exposed cob with inserted rubble footings and some 19th-century stone rubble with brick dressings; the roof is thatched with slate replacements. Originally based on a three-room-and-through-passage plan facing south, the through passage has been removed, though it was likely on the east side of the hall. A service room, previously used for agricultural purposes and unheated until around 1970, is located to the right. The hall features a front lateral stack, and the inner room has a rear projecting lateral stack. A dairy block is set at right angles to the rear of the hall. A granary and store were added in the 19th century to the left (west) end, extending the same width as the main house but under a roof at a right angle. The stairs inside are 20th-century additions.

The front has an irregular five-window arrangement of 19th and 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. The main door, a 19th-century part-glazed plank door with a contemporary monopitch slate roofed porch, is centrally located on the front and inserted into what was formerly the inner room. A 20th-century glazed door and window are located on the right-hand side, and block a previous doorway. The eaves of the roof step down and up over the right-hand end first-floor window. The gable end to the right is visible. A 20th-century farm building obscures the left-hand gable end of the granary. External stone steps lead to the first floor on the left end. The gable-ended dairy block’s western side wall has been rebuilt in rubble with brick dressings.

Inside, the inner room now contains the main stair and entrance lobby. It features a late 16th to early 17th century crossbeam soffit-chamfered with run-out stops. The large fireplace is built of rubble with a plain, possibly replacement, oak lintel. The hall has a lower end internal jetty over the original passage partition. A plank-and-muntin screen’s headbeam is exposed on the passage side and features a scratch-moulded cornice and Roman numeral carpenter’s assembly marks. The jetty's bressumer is fluted with four convex moulds and dates to the late 16th to early 17th centuries. The hall was originally floored in the 17th century with a double ovolo moulded crossbeam with bar-runout stops, though the fireplace has been blocked and the original may have been removed. The service end room features two crossbeams of large scantling with unstopped soffit chamfers. All internal partitions are timber framed and clad in plaster. The roof space is inaccessible, but the principal rafters’ feet are visible, suggesting a 17th-century, intact roof structure. An open truss over the hall rests on vertical posts set into the wall and mortised, tenoned, and pegged into the principals, forming a devolved jointed cruck. The dairy is dated to the late 16th to early 17th centuries and includes a soffit-chamfered and step-stopped crossbeam.