Burnley House And Moorlands With Railings And Gates Attached To Front

Burnley House and Moorlands are two houses built in 1787, located centrally within Hutton-le-Hole. A 20th-century modernisation and alteration has occurred. They were originally commissioned for John and Lydia Featherstone and their son. The front of the houses are finely tooled sandstone, the right side is dressed sandstone, the left side is part rubble sandstone raised in squared sandstone, and one section is red brick in an English garden wall bond. The buildings are of a central-entry plan, with l½ rooms deep, and include an outshut to Burnley House.

The two-storey houses present a five-window front. Each house has a door with eight raised and fielded panels, approached by stone steps, with a divided overlight above the Burnley House entrance. A lintel above Burnley House incorporates a datestone inscribed “L. IF 1787”. Burnley House has 16-pane sash windows, while Moorlands has 12-pane sash windows, all with stone sills. The openings to Burnley House have plain raised surrounds, and those to Moorlands have raised architraves. The building features a cavetto-moulded eaves course returning on gable walls, with coped gables and shaped kneelers. End and left-of-centre stacks are present, along with 12-pane sashes to the ground and first floors on the right gable wall of Burnley House, set within plain raised surrounds.

Inside Burnley House, quarter-round moulded joists remain in the front rooms on both the ground and first floors, along with surviving dado rails in the room to the right on both floors. The ground floor features doors with eight raised and fielded panels opening from the entrance hall, and a staircase with an open well, open string, turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and scrolled motifs to the tread-ends. A panelled double door leads to the cellar, which has a semicircular head beneath the stairs. A harr-hung door with six raised and fielded panels on strap hinges leads to the rear of the entrance hall. One room to the left retains a panelled and shuttered window recess with a wall recess containing shaped shelves. An original fireplace with a stone surround survives behind a more modern fireplace. The first floor front rooms contain late 18th-century basket grates. The attic features a fine roof with three scissor-braced trusses, and a reused eight-panel door has been incorporated into a partition. The interior of Moorlands has not been inspected.

The front of the property is defined by cast-iron railings raised on a low stone plinth with pointed tops and urn finials to the standards. Garden gates provide access.