Burbank House

NY 43 SE DACRE GREAT BLENCOW

13/49 Burbank House

27.12.67

II

Grammar school now private house. 1793. Mixed sandstone and limestone rubble walls, with eaves cornice and V-jointed quoins, on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; open bellcote on gable, and banded ashlar chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 6 bays with single-storey, single-bay right kitchen extension. Off-centre panelled door and intersecting glazing-bar fanlight in alternate-block surround with round arch. Extreme left doorway also has alternate-block surround and reused lintel from the earlier school; inscribed THOMAS BURBANK 1577 with Latin tag. Ground-floor sash windows with intersecting glazing-bar heads in round-headed stone surrounds; similar sash windows with glazing bars in stone surrounds above, but with flat heads. The stone bellcote has open-arched sides under pyramidal roof with greyhound vane. Extension has blank front wall and similar details to match house. Left return wall has C20 garage door under blocked Venetian window, flanked by round-headed windows. Upper floor flat-headed sash windows with glazing bars under oval window flanked by blocked small square attic windows. Rear single-storey extension in similar details. Central round-headed window, otherwise all flat-headed sashes with glazing bars. Endowed as a school in 1577 and closed c1919.

Listing NGR: NY4555632701