Description

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (East Side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) Corner House Hotel
7/78
12.9.55

GV II

House restored as hotel. Early C16 but entirely restored in early C20.
Rubble on ground floor, timber-frame on 1st floor, Cotswold stone roof. 2
storeys and attic; 4 hipped dormers, rubble end chimneys. 1st floor
close-studded with 4 windows, 3- and 4- light arch-headed lancets with
moulded heads, moulded strings over ground floor. 2 windows on ground
floor, 4-light chamfered mullion type with king mullions. Central Tudor
arched doorway (also new.). Right hand ground floor corner chamfered
back with mullion window on splay and 2 Tudor arches (to West and to
South) supported on chamfered corner pier. Gabled return to Witney Street
also looks C20. 3-bay 2-storey-and-attic extension to West is probably
C17 though with C20 casements; a further 2-storey extension is probably
C17 or early C18. Interior ground floor room retains massive probably C16
spine beam with pyramidal stops.

Listing NGR: SP2516312181

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26518116

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)