Description

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (West side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) No 162 (The Gabled
7/159 House)
12.9.55

GV II

House. Early-mid C17 front. Rubble with Cotswold stone roof. Plan: 2
rooms on ground floor to front with passage linking to original rear
kitchen wing. May originally have had a 1st floor hall. 2 storeys and
attic. 2 gables to front with moulded coping and ball finials. Dressed
rubble chimney to right with moulded coping. Restored (indeed mostly new)
hollow chamfer mullion windows, 3-light to attic, 4 lights below, with
drips. Central Tudor arch doorway with hollow chamfer and label, plank
door possibly C16 with iron work of that period. Steps up to door.
Farmers Fire Insurance tablet over. Interior: ground floor left-hand
room has a Tudor arch fire-place at back and a steep Tudor arch doorway
giving access (formerly) to yard, perhaps once to a stair turret. The 3
ground floor rooms have chamfered joists; rear room has wide fire-place
with cambered wooden lintel. The central truss incorporates a raised
cruck - presumably C15 or early C16.

Listing NGR: SP2508712043

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26518741

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)