East Burne Farmhouse

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BICKINGTON CI X SW

29/19A East Burne Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Circa late C15 remodelled in circa early to mid C16 and early to mid C17, extended and altered in C18 and/or C19. Roughcast cob and stone rubble. Slate roof with gabled ends. 2 lateral stacks at the front with tall rendered shafts rising from the front wall. PLAN: A 3-room and through passage plan, the lower end to the right. The hall and the lower end room are heated from lateral stacks at the front. The unheated inner room has a stair turret at the back. Across the back there is a single storey outshut and at the lower right hand end another outshut with a loft above. DEVELOPMENT: At least the hall and probably the lower end of the original house were open to the roof. The chamber over the inner room may have been an original feature; this is jettied about 6 inches into the hall. While the hall was still open to the roof a chamber was created over the lower end, jettied over the passage into the hall. The lateral stack at the front of the hall may have been built when the lower end floor was inserted, but in any case it is likely to have been built before the hall itself was floored in circa early to mid C17. Contemporaneous with the flooring of the hall was the widening of the doorway between the hall and the inner room, probably as access to a staircase inserted at the same time at the back of the inner room, therefore making the newel staircase redundant. The rear outshut and another outshut at the lower right hand end are probably C18 or C19 additions. Sometime in the C19 a straight staircase was inserted under the jetty at the lower end of the hall rising from the back of the passage. Another staircase was added at the rear of the lower end room, which suggests the house may have been divided in the C19 and since reunited. The putative early to mid C17 staircase in the inner room was probably removed in the C19. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys Asymmetrical 4-window range of C20 sashes and casements. On the ground floor and on the right hand of the first floor there are 4-pane sashes. The remainder of the first floor windows are small 2-light casements. The through-passage doorway to the right of centre has a C19 plank door and a lean-to slate canopy on wooden cantilevers. A C20 glazed door has been inserted into the front of the inner room to the left. At the lower right hand end a lean-to 1-storey and attic outshut with an old plank door and a C20 casement above. The rear elevation has a rounded projecting stair turret to the right and the remainder of the rear wall is concealed by a single storey outshut with an asbestos tile lean-to roof. Attached to the outshut at the lower right hand end there is a C19 outbuilding at right angles. It is now a garage on the ground floor with dwelling accommodation above. INTERIOR: In the hall the joist ends of the jetties are curved and chamfered, the higher end with diagonal stops, the lower end has butt stops. The higher end jetty is only about 6 inches deep and set on a solid wall between the hall and the inner room, while the lower end jetty is about 3 feet deep, but its joists are stopped on the soffit indicating that the passage partition has been moved making the passage narrower. The hall has a chamfered cross-beam and joists, all with bar stops. There is a similarly stopped chamfered lintel to a former opening in the wall between the hall and inner room. The hall fireplace in the front lateral stack has a high-set chamfered timber lintel with indeterminate (possibly run-out) stops, on granite corbels with curved ends; now blocked with a C20 fireplace. The inner room has heavy unchamfered joists, and at the back a blocked stair-turret. The passage has chamfered joists and a stud and plaster partition on the lower side. The lower end room has a chamfered cross-beam with straight-cut stops and a fireplace in the front stack with a mid C19 moulded chimneypiece and cast-iron grate. ROOF was replaced, probably in C19, with elm nailed principal rafters, except for what remains in the partitions at the higher and lower ends of the hall chamber; the lower partition over the jetty has wattle infill and what appears to be smoke-blackening on the lower side of the rear principal.

Listing NGR: SX7992371102

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