Burrastow House

Burrastow House is a building dating from 1759, with subsequent additions and alterations. It forms a group consisting of a former merchant's house (now a hotel), a walled garden to the east, a connection to a former trading booth, a curved sea wall along the beach, and a clack mill to the south.

The main house is a two-storey and attic, three-bay symmetrical building. Later, in the early 19th and early 20th centuries, two-storey wings were added to the rear (north) and connect in the centre, creating a square plan. A single-storey and attic, six-bay former barn (now modernised) projects from the northwest corner. The walls are harled with polished ashlar margins and dressings. Projecting cills are present on the windows.

The south (principal) elevation is symmetrical and features carved stone lions, a sedant, and clasping shields flanking a stone forestair with harled sides that rises to a gabled, harled porch projecting in the centre bay. Windows are in the flanking bays, with regular fenestration at the first floor.

The west elevation presents a symmetrical, regularly fenestrated two-bay gable on the right side of the main range, featuring small square windows in each bay at attic level. A two-bay flat-roofed rear wing extends to the left, including a modern lean-to conservatory at ground level. The elevation also has regular first-floor fenestration and a wallhead stack at the corner to the outer left. A modernised elevation of the former barn is advanced on the left.

The north (rear) elevation is asymmetrical, with a single-storey lean-to projection at ground level. The rear wings rise behind it, connected at the centre by a V-shaped parapet. A bipartite window is centred on the first floor of the right wing, and a crenellated parapet with a wallhead stack is on the left wing.

The east elevation has a symmetrical two-bay gable of the main range to the left, featuring a single window in the left bay at the principal floor. There’s regular first-floor fenestration and smaller windows in each bay at attic level. A two-bay rear wing extends to the right, also including a modern lean-to conservatory at ground level, a window in the right bay at the first floor, and a crenellated parapet.

Timber sash and case windows are present, predominantly with plate glass and a four-pane pattern. One original 12-pane window survives at the principal floor of the east gable. The roofs are covered with purple-grey slate and have droved ashlar, concrete, and lead-covered skew-copes. Harled gablehead stacks are on the main range, and wallhead stacks are on the rear wings, all finished with harled and coped circular cans.

The walled garden is enclosed by a battered random rubble wall, creating a roughly rectangular space adjoining the house and a cottage at the southwest and southeast corners respectively.

A cement-rendered sea wall features a battered and crenellated concrete parapet. A narrow timber gate is centrally located south of the house, with stone steps leading to the beach. The wall extends to the west, curving to the south, and terminates with square, cement-rendered gatepiers with pyramidal caps. A random rubble retaining sea wall is located north of the cottage.