Burcombe Farmhouse And Former Granary Adjoining To North West

Burcombe Farmhouse and a former granary stand close together, likely dating to the mid to late 16th century, with additions from the late 18th or early 19th century. Later remodelling occurred in the mid-19th century, alongside alterations in the late 20th century. The farmhouse is primarily constructed from uncoursed stone rubble, with some areas cement rendered, and the front has been refaced with snecked dressed sandstone. The roof is covered in asbestos slate, with scantle slates on the gable of the rear wing. A rendered stone stack is topped with 19th-century red brick and features scantle slates.

The original plan was likely a two-room, central-entrance design facing south, with integral end stacks on both sides. There's a possibility of an earlier three-room and cross-passage layout, although this has been altered. A gabled wing thought to be from the 18th century projects at a right angle to the rear of the right-hand room, and a granary of similar date extends at a right angle from the rear of the left-hand wing. The 19th-century remodelling included refacing the front and potentially removing a room on the right. A staircase was inserted into the former cross passage (now the entrance hall) during this period. The eaves were also likely raised in the 19th century. A more recent lean-to structure connects the wings at the rear.

The south front presents a symmetrical three-bay facade with two- and three-light wooden casement windows in 19th-century openings. Ground-floor windows have stone flat-arched heads. A central half-glazed door is set within a rendered, gabled porch of 20th-century origin. The rear wing, dating to the 18th century, has 20th-century casements in old openings to the right and a half-glazed door in an old opening to the left, all with wooden lintels. The gable end of the granary wing features a loft doorway with a wooden lintel and a ground-floor casement window, also of 20th-century design.

Inside, the rooms on the ground floor to the right have joists running front to back. An open fireplace, probably from the 16th or 17th century, is located on the right, featuring dressed stone jambs, a chamfered wooden lintel with straight-cut stops, and a cast-iron bread-oven door. A plank and muntin screen is reportedly present between the entrance/staircase hall and the right-hand ground-floor room, with bevelled muntins, a middle rail, and a 19th-century door set within what is believed to be an original 16th-century doorway. The entrance/staircase hall contains a 20th-century staircase replacing an earlier 19th-century one, with matchboarding on the walls. The first floor retains old floorboards. Throughout the house are four-panelled doors from the mid to late 19th century. The roof over the main range has seven bays and incorporates much reused timber. The roof trusses have straight principal rafters that do not meet at the apex, separated by pegged collars (or saddles) with king posts and tie beams, along with pairs of purlins and 20th-century rafters.