Burnley House And Moorlands With Railings And Gates Attached To Front

SE 7090 SE 7089 11/82

HUTTON-LE-HOLE THE VILLAGE (centre) Burnley House and Moorlands, with railings and gates attached to front

GV II

2 houses. 1787 on datestone to Burnley House, to right; C20 modernisation and alteration. For John and Lydia Featherstone and their son. Finely tooled sandstone to front and right side; dressed sandstone to rear; left side part rubble sandstone, raised in squared sandstone. Tooled chamfered plinth and tooled raised and chamfered quoins. Outshut of red brick in English garden wall bond. Pantile roof. Both houses are central-entry plan, l½ rooms deep with outshut to Burnley House. 2-storey, 5-window front. Doors to both houses are of 8 raised and fielded panels, approached by stone steps, with divided overlight to Burnley House. Lintel over Burnley House incorporates datestone inscribed: L . IF 1787 Windows to Burnley House are 16-pane sashes, those to Moorlands 12-pane sashes and all have stone sills. Openings to Burnley House have plain raised surrounds, those to Moorlands raised architraves. Cavetto-moulded eaves course returning on gable walls at each end. Coped gables and shaped kneelers. End and left of centre stacks. Right gable wall: 12-pane sashes to ground and first floors in plain raised surrounds. Interior of Burnley House. Quarter-round moulded joists survive in the front rooms on ground and first floors. On both floors the dado rail survives in the room to the right. Ground floor: doors of 8 raised and fielded panels from entrance hall. Open well, open string staircase with turned balusters, moulded handrail, ramped-up and wreathed at foot around tapering newel; scrolled motifs to tread-ends. Panelled double doors to cellar with semicircular head, beneath stairs. Harr-hung door of 6 raised and fielded panels on strap hinges to rear of entrance hall. Room to left retains panelled and shuttered window recess with wall recess to the left with shaped shelves. Original fireplace with stone surround survives behind modern fireplace. First floor: both front rooms have late C18 basket grates. Attic: fine roof of 3 scissor-braced trusses. 8-panel door reused as a section of partitioning. Interior of Moorlands: not inspected. Cast-iron railings to front, with garden gates: approximately .5 metres and raised on low stone plinth, and with pointed tops and urn finials to standards.

Listing NGR: SE7057989836