Description

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (West Side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) Cob House (Previously
7/111 listed as part of The
12.9.55 Vicarage).

GV II*

Formerly a wing of the Parsonage House, now a separate dwelling. Dated
1672, could be attributable to one of the craftsman in the Oxford-Wren
circle, Christopher Kempster the local man being the favourite. Freestone
front, chamfered quoins with rebated corners to upper floors, Cotswold
stone roof, ashlar end chimney to right. 2 storeys; 3 bays. The main
point of the front are the 3 pedimented features built up over the eaves,
the outer triangular the centre segmental and dated, with moulded cornices
and flat-edged blocked oval panels. Imposing 1st floor piano-nobile with
architraves and cornices to stone cross mullion windows. The ground floor
is really a basement or rustic, see the chamfered plinth and the less good
quality stone. Mullioned windows in moulded architraves, perhaps a
remodelling, note straight joint near South end; cellar grating. The
South return is in coursed rubble, 2 blocked 1st floor windows with simple
architraves, blocked oval in attic. Entered from single-storey extension
to right built of ashlar, set at an angle and with a 4-panel door. The
main roan of this building was a 1st floor roan now subdivided. The
building formed originally the East wing of the Old Vicarage (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SP2518112420

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532460

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Recommended Books

• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)