Description

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (West Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) The Cotswold Arms Inn Cotswold Arms Inn 7/123 12.9.55

GV II

Inn, perhaps historically so. Late mediaeval and late 17th century, but front remodelled early-mid C19. Irregular rubble with Cotswold stone roof - L-plan. Built originally as one with premises to North (q.v.) 2 storeys. 2 windows, glazing-bar sashes, one in centre of 1st floor, the left hand one has timber lintel, angled glazing below also with glazing- bar sashes. Good Tudor arch doorway to left (actually under the right hand window of adjacent premises to South (q.v. under Caroline Jane) ; deep moulded surround with enriched spandrels. Good early-mid C19 Gothick door with bowtel mouldings to tracery. Evidence of blocked mullion window on 1st floor to right. Gabled return, to Priory Lane, has mullioned windows ; 2 storeys and attic with 2-light mullion windows to attic and 1st floor, and plain doorway to right. 2-storey extension with 1:3 windows, to left mullioned with drips, 5-light on ground floor, to right mid-C19 sashes, ground floor altered. Further lower extension has 3-bay roof structure, part-restored, with braces, perhaps a C16 cottage converted to stable use. Interior: altered; rear extension has wide elliptical-headed fire-place on ground floor, partly blocked.

Listing NGR: SP2515812305

External Links

• The Cotswold Arms Inn official website
• Wikidata Q26518516

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide