Burleaze Farmhouse

ILTON CP OLD WAY (South side, off) ST31NE

3/90 Burleaze Farmhouse

28.5.87

• II

Detached farmhouse. C17 and later. Local stone rubble, mostly rendered, some ashlar dressings; hipped thatched roof; brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. 'T'-plan; 2 storeys, 5 bays. Above, a mixture of leaded casement windows of 3, 2, 3, 4 and 4 lights, with rectangular panes and iron-framed opening lights, that to upper bay 4 having a hollow-chamfer mullioned frame; below, similar windows bays 1 and 3, with C20 casements bays 4 and 5; to lower bay 2 an open rendered porch with double Roman clay tiled roof: an extension westwards is an unrendered farm building, with a stable door and one casement window below and a loft door above, with a further lean-to against the west gable. Long extension to rear, with corrugated iron sheet roof; rear elevation of house has similar casements, but to ground floor is one 3-light hollow-chamfer mullioned window in a chamfered recess, with label; also 2 leanto buildings, one with Welsh slate roof, the other with triple-roll clay tiles. Interior not seen, but reported are chamfered cross-beams with step and runout stops, possible old fireplaces to hall and east gable; a post and truss partition with wattle rod and daub infill, and tie-beam trusses. A lease of 1696 exists; the farm was part of the Wyndham Estate until 1919. (SSAVBRG Report, SRO unpublished, November 1984).

Listing NGR: ST3570316781