Description

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (West Side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) The Tolsey
7/147
12.9.55

GV II*

Town-hall and market-house. C16 (1st documented 1561). Rendered timber-
frame raised on stone piers, Cotswold stone roof. L-plan, open front to
ground floor. Gabled 2-storey front, coved eaves. Two C20 angled bays on
1st floor with 1:4:1 lights. Open 4 x 2-bay ground floor on octagonal
stone piers, Tudor arch niche to rear. The right hand front gable has a
pair of beams projecting with late C19 circular clock and a bell below.
The side elevation is angled to Sheep Street. 2-storey extension to rear
with a pair of glazing-bar sashes to North and an ashlar chimney.
Interior: the front 2-bay chamber has a central post with arched braces
to flanking trusses, the rear part has stepped corbels to truss. The
lock-up (studded door survives) was probably at rear on ground floor. The
front was used to house the fire engine up the early in the C20. Now a
museum of Burford.

Listing NGR: SP2511712134

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Burford Tolsey Museum at Wikipedia
• Burford Tolsey Museum official website
• Wikidata Q17532521

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)