Listed Buildings

LISTED BUILDINGS IN BURGHCLERE

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Grade 1. 1100, 1200, 1400, C17, restored 1861

Aisleless Norman nave, extended westwards in early english style, with a north transept of circa 1400,

Early English chancel, C17, bell turret at west end. Plain tile roofing, pyramid roof to the bell-turret,

which has boarded sides. Walling with flint and stone with stone quions: The transept has flint and stone

alternating horizontal bands. These are lancets to the chancel, coupled 'perpendicular' windows

with hood-moulds, simple tracery in the transept and a (restored) west window of plate tracery.

There is a pointed arch to the priests door, and the north and south Norman doors of the nave remain

(though blocked) with scalloped tympanum on the south and a recessed order on detached columns

on the north side; The early English west door has a moulded pointed arch of three orders, with two

sets of shafts on each side. The plain interior has at the west end the arch-braced timberframe of the

bell turret, supported on brackets. The fittings are victorian except for bench pews of the c16.

There is a large classical monument in the chancel (to Jane Eyre, 1748), A wall monument in the nave

of 1759, several tomb slabs of the c17 and early c18 period, and two hatchments above the chancel arch.

At each end of the church on the south side there projects a mausoleum of extremely plain form, with

lead-coveredlow pitch roofing and fine stone ashlar walling with slightly-recessed panels.

Whitway Cottage 15c., early 19c.

Rectangular house of one storey and attic, clad in painted brickwork of the later period. Half-hipped thatched roof. Casements,

some being cast-iron Gothic (estate) lights of the later period. Within, the middle is a heavy timber-dash frame structure, formerly

a single bay late-medievil, with a massive chimney breast attached (now part of a room). A trove of tudor coins was found in the old part.

Originally a plain wide nave with shallow transepts and chancel with a western tower, extended eastwards

by the attachment of a long chancel, with a south isle and north vestry. Slate roofing. The older part has

walling of square knapped flints with stone dressings; lancets to the nave and coupled windows (with wood-moulds)

to the transepts, a western tower of three stages with corner buttresses and a western entrance door; inside, the plain

interior has 'hammer-beam' trusses with cusp headed rails. The later work is of a rich perpendicular style, with stepped

buttresses, traceried windows, rough flint walling with stone dressings; the interior is a chancel screen of open traceried

timber work above a stone dado wall, steps, communion rail, sedilia, and brass eagle lectern.

North front of two storeys, four upper windows. Hipped tile roof cat slide to the rear, brick dentil eaves brick walling in Flemish

garden wall bond cambered ground floor openings, tile hung west gable. Casements.

Gabled brick porch with oval arch to the entrance, decorative barge boards, and panelled door. Tied to the house by a

low-roofed passage is the roadside forge building (now a garage), comprising a rectangular block with a tile roof (hippedat north,

half-hippedat at the south end), red brick walling in Flemish bond, simple glazing of vertical panes, with shutters.