Burlingham Farmhouse

Burlingham Farmhouse is an early to mid-19th century farmhouse with an attached barn, now used as a house. It is located on Burlinghams Lane, Tintinhull. The farmhouse is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with the south front painted and the left gable rendered. The barn is built of coursed lias, with plain tile roofs and two courses of Welsh slate at the eaves. The original layout was a gable-entry plan with a central staircase and two principal rooms; the barn was originally separate but later attached to the house with a linking unit, which now provides access on the right gable.

The farmhouse is two storeys and has an attic, with two windows. The ground floor has three-light hollow chamfered stone mullions with round heads and leading, set back from flush jambs and lintels. The first floor has two-light small pane horizontal sliding sashes, and alternating quoins and raised verges at the gables, all detailed in Ham stone. A small two-light horizontal sash window is set in the left gable, along with quoins and voussoirs similar to the front. A Roman Doric portico with a flat arch and a single step leads to a glazed door on the left gable; this was the original entrance. The right gable has a similar attic window, but a 20th-century glazed door is on the right in the linking unit. Rendered and brick gable stacks are present, one on the left and one on the right respectively. The rear of the farmhouse is brick-built, featuring a single three-light stone mullioned window on the ground floor and three small pane horizontal sliding sash windows on the first floor. A two-light 20th-century casement is present in the link.

The barn has broad gables with stepped copings, brick dressings, two plank doors at ground floor on the right end, a loading door above the right end, and a central door flanked by 20th-century casements and a ventilating casement on the left end.

The interior of the farmhouse largely retains its original features, including a square newel stone staircase with nosings and a simple wrought iron balustrade extending over two floors. The inner doors are stripped pine six-panelled and moulded, set within Ham stone jambs and lintols. A doorway from the staircase leads to a former entrance hall with a basket-handle arch and keystone. A large opening has been created from the kitchen to the barn annexe. Fireplaces are mainly from the 19th century, with fluted jambs and rosettes. Shutters are fitted to the ground floor windows, and the ceilings are plain. Some flagstone flooring remains. The roof has a simple A-frame structure, exposed within the two attic rooms. The barn has a concrete floor, a central wall carried up to the ridge, and A-frame roofing with purlins fixed with tusk tenon joints.

The farmhouse represents a handsome and largely unaltered example of its original design.