Burdocks

Burdocks is a country house built in 1911 by Sir E. Guy Dawber for J. Reade, designed in the Cotswold Queen Anne style. It is constructed from local coursed and dressed stone and features a modillion eaves cornice, a hipped stone slate roof, and plain large stone stacks. The house has an L-shape, with two storeys and an attic.

The main elevation facing the garden has seven windows, which are 12-pane sashes with keystones and sloping voussoirs. The central three windows project forward under a pediment that includes a keyed oculus. There is a large central moulded stone doorway with a dropped keystone, a pulvinated frieze, and a moulded cornice supported by consoles. The house also has seven dormers with flat roofs and moulded wood cornices.

The entrance front has five windows, with the central three set back. The central stone doorcase is flanked by Ionic columns and features an entablature and pediment, with a rusticated door surround and an eight-panel door, the lower four of which form an X shape.

To the east is a lower service wing linked by a wall that has an arched door leading to outbuildings (not included in the listing). This wing includes a single-storey extension that ends at the northeast corner with a small pavilion topped with a square pyramidal roof.

A coursed stone wall with clay ridge tile coping extends north from both sides of the house, creating a small break to the west for the garden and a larger break to the east for the yard. This wall culminates in a small central quadrant to the north, featuring large square piers on moulded plinths, with a moulded stone cornice and large ball finials adorned with vermiculated bands. The wall stands approximately 2.8 meters high, while the piers reach nearly 4 meters.

Burdocks is set in formal grounds that include yew hedges and fountains, exemplifying early 20th-century architectural taste.