Burnham Westgate Hall

The Hall has three storeys, with about 15,870 sq ft (1,474 m2) of living space, and seven bays on the main west elevation, and three on the north and south side returns.

It is built of plain Gault bricks, with stone plinth, dressings and platbands between the ground and first floor, and slate roofs.

The three-storey, five-bay centre block is surmounted by a three-bay triangular pediment, with a moulded brick modillion eaves cornice, and two long low chimneystacks.

The second floor central window has a stucco rectangular architrave surround, and there is a fixed sash in the centre of the pediment.

The flanking bays of the central block are slightly recessed, with one sash window on each floor under flat rubbed brick arches.

Each side elevation has a three-bay return with windows on the ground and first floor, stone platbands, and eaves cornice.

The cantilevered Imperial staircase, added by Soane, has stone treads and a cast iron baluster, leads to the piano nobile on the first floor, decorated with carved wooden fittings and moulded plaster cornices.

A winterbourne chalk stream, the Goose Beck, occasionally runs through the southern part of the park and gardens: when it appears, it drains east through the village of Burnham Market towards the River Burn.

The Hall was donated to the Women's Section of the Royal British Legion in 1933 as a war memorial, to be used to train young ladies as domestic servants.

They opened up blocked fireplaces, removed grab rails, and lifted linoleum to reveal the original oak floorboards and parquet floors.

They also increased the land attached to the house again, by buying a neighbouring plot of 28 acres (11 ha) from a local farmer, and also bought back the walled kitchen garden.

Responsible for remodelling the house in the 1780s
Sir John Soane , remodelled the interior of the Hall in the mid 1780s