Burlestone Farmhouse

Burlestone Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with extensions around the 18th century and alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is built of local slate rubble, with the left-hand, south-west gable end rendered. The roof is of bitumised slate with gabled ends. Large rendered axial and gable end stacks have tapered caps and slate-on-edge cowls.

The original plan was of a three-room and cross passage design. The lower left-hand room and the right-hand inner room were heated from gable end stacks; the hall has a stack backing onto the cross passage. A two-storey porch stands at the front of the cross passage, and a stair turret is located at the back of the passage. A short, two-storey, single-room wing, likely dating from the 18th century, was added in front of the right-hand inner room and is thought to have been used as a dairy. An external staircase at the right end provides access to a loft over the inner room. Around the 19th century, an axial passage was formed at the back of the hall. In the 20th century, the partition between the inner room and the front wing was removed, and a single-storey outshut was built behind the hall.

The south-east front has an asymmetrical arrangement of four windows. A short, projecting, gabled wing stands to the right, and a two-storey porch is to the left of centre, open-fronted on the ground floor with jambs corbelled out to carry the timber lintel and first floor; its roof is carried down from the main roof. The ground floor windows are circa late 19th or early 20th century, 3-light casements with glazing bars, while the first floor windows are similar but 20th-century replacements, all with timber lintels, slate woodmoulds and rendered sills. To the right side of the projecting wing, a flight of stone rubble steps leads up to a first-floor doorway in the gable end, which has a plank door. At the rear, a stair turret is situated to the right of centre, with a canted left side, 20th-century casements, and a late 20th-century flat roof. A rendered single-storey outshut is at the centre of the rear.

The interior has been significantly altered in the late 19th century, and any original carpentry, including fireplaces and ceiling beams, is covered. The roof was entirely replaced in the late 19th century with well-made hinge-post trusses.