Description

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (West Side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) Nos 34, 36, 38, 38a,
40
7/121 and 42 (Bear Court)
12.9.55 (Previously listed as
Bear Inn).

GV II

Former inn. Front perhaps C16 (with Falkland Hall), refenestrated:- c.
1800. Coursed and squared rubble on chamfered plinth, Cotswold stone
roof. U-plan with alley to left. 2 storeys at attic. 2 hipped dormers,
C20 brick chimney to right. 1 range of windows, on 1st floor a glazing-
bar sash in raised flat surround with keystone, on ground floor a glazing-
bar shop window. Tall and wide Tudor arched entry to left with label
raised over; ogee molded surround with keystone and panelled spandrels -
sours to predate Falkland Hall (q.v.). Cobbled alley. Courtyard to rear
with 2-storey 5-bay wing linking with barn or store-house cross wing with
open ground floor. Interior: ground floor front room has a Tudor arch
fireplace with roses in the spandrels (moved here from 1st floor).
Perhaps once part of the adjacent property to North-see plinth - rather
than associated with Falkland Hall (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SP2515012343

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26518515

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock