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Latitude: 51.8103 / 51°48'37"N
Longitude: -1.6358 / 1°38'8"W
OS Eastings: 425206
OS Northings: 212470
OS Grid: SP252124
Mapcode National: GBR 5SW.F82
Mapcode Global: VHBZS.LRLL
Plus Code: 9C3WR967+4M
Entry Name: Symon Wysdom's House
Listing Date: 12 September 1955
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1223797
English Heritage Legacy ID: 419546
ID on this website: 101223797
Location: Burford, West Oxfordshire, OX18
County: Oxfordshire
District: West Oxfordshire
Civil Parish: Burford
Built-Up Area: Burford
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Burford
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
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BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (East side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) No 1 (Symon Wysdom's
7/48 House)
12.9.55
GV II*
Almshouses or cottages, now house. Remodelled 1576. Restored late C19
and mid-c20. Coursed rubble, Cotswold stone roof, 3 chimneys. Two
storeys. 4 gables in which are 3-light stone mullion windows with drip-
moulds. Ground floor has 3 sash windows and plain doorway with chamfered
stone lintel. Gables cross-wing to East, extends North as 2-storey
stables, 2 windows on 1st floor, 2 doors and a window ground floor, one 3-
light oak hollow-chamfered mullion window survives to East, (this part
shown as Rose Cottage on OS map). Moulded stone panel on front reads
"Symon Wysdom Alderman/the first founder of the Schole/in Burford gave
these tenemenes/Wythe the other to the same schole/in an. 1576/all laude
and prays be given/to God therefore Amen."
Simon Wisdom was a prominent C16 businessman locally and appears to have
been involved in most municipal activities between c.1530 to c.1585. In
1855 associated with a wife-selling incident (cost £15). M Graves: The
History of Shipton under Wychwood (1934).
Listing NGR: SP2520612470
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