Burt House — SPEENOGUE

Detached three-bay two-storey country house on an irregular plan, built c. 1870, with two-storey bow window to south gable, breakfront and single-storey box bay window to front and modern extension to north-east gable, with earlier house, c. 1680, to rear, and later two-bay two-storey extension to rear of it. Hipped slate roof with clayware ridge tiles, smooth rendered chimneystacks over plinth with smooth rendered cornice coping and terracotta pots; smooth rendered stringcourse to eaves below paired stone brackets supporting extending timber soffit and replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with smooth rendered rusticated block-and-start quoins and plinth course; dentilated moulded cornice stringcourse over narrow moulded stringcourse to first floor of bow; moulded cornice to top of box bay and moulded stringcourse to capitals of mullions to box bay. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six, two-over-two and six-over-three timber sash windows with painted sills; moulded sill course to bow windows; box bay with basket-arch headed window opening with rendered surrounds and two-over-two horned timber sashes, flanked by round-arch-headed margin windows with two-over-two horned timber sashes with rendered surrounds and moulded sill course. Round-arch-headed door opening with flat panelled smooth rendered pilasters supporting moulded architrave surround with keystone motif, double-leaf timber panelled door with semi-circular glazed overlight over moulded timber door lintel. Set within own grounds with walled garden to south-east comprising rubble stone wall with glass house foundations and red brick chimneystack of former boiler house; outbuildings (40904716) to rear, roughcast rendered gate piers on a square plan with pyramidal stone coping and double wrought-iron gates.