Archibald Herbert Winterburn was born in Whitby, Yorkshire, England in 1875 and was articled to Edward Henry Smales (1843-1911) in Whitby. He also attended Sheffield Technical College and Westminster School of Art in London.
He commenced independent practice as an architect in West Drayton, Middlesex in 1904. He worked as Managing assistant to A. E. Turnell in Fargate, Sheffield and was Architect and Surveyor to the Yorkshire Amalgamated Products, Ltd.
Winterburn was a Member of the Society of Architects (MSA) and was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1925. His address was given as 14 Silver Street, Whitby, Yorkshire in 1881 and 1891; 147 Newcastle Avenue, Worksop, Nottinghamshire in 1911; 31, Peveril Road, Endcllffe, Sheffield, Yorkshire and 6, Francis Street, Leeds, Yorkshire in 1914; 256, Thorne Road, Doncaster; and 16, Spencer Place, Leeds in 1923 and 1926; 75 Tewkesbury Terrace, Bowes Park, London in 1930; and Comrie House, Friern Park, Middlesex in 1936. He died in Barnet, Middlesex on 18 August 1936
Rotary Photographic works, lodge, recreation hall, club house, and estate at West Drayton, Middlesex; Baptist Church, Hillingdon, Hayes, Middlesex: church rooms and public hall, Yiewsley and West Drayton, Middlesex; Heanor, Ripley, and Worksop (Notts), picture halls; residences at Uxbridge, Cowley and Beaconsfield, Bucks; estate developments at Doncaster; South Hackney, N.E; and Whitechapel, London; garages and business premises, Sheffield and South Elmsall. Yorks; housing scheme, Doncaster; houses and shops, Hemsworth. near Wakefield; residences, Knoll Park Estate, Orpington (1921), and at Wembley (1925); shops and lists, London, 1925
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001