Description

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (West Side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) No 70 (The Antiquary)
7/132 and No 68 (Jackie's
12.9.55 Tea Rooms)
(Previously listed as
House and Shop premises
next but two on the South
of New College)

GV II*

House, partly a shop. c.1700-20 front breaking forward, with C15/early C16
origins. Freestone front on chamfered plinth, Cotswold stone roof with
end chimnies, the right-hand one stunted ashlar. Usual L-plan, front in
local Baroque style. 2 storeys and attics, right-hand part on cellar;
central gabled dormer, heavy cornice and parapet, 6 windows on 1st floor,
the left-hand treble, right-hand paired, glazing-bar sashes in moulded
architraves and with moulded keys, ground floor right-hand also paired.
Mid-late C19 projecting shop-front with shallow arch glazing in 4:1 bays
and recessed entrance with carved bracket supporting fascia to right;
ashlar dwarf wall with heavy chamfered plinth and cellar grate.
Pedimented doorcase with architrave and pulvinated frieze to right of
centre. Lead rain-water head and pipe to each side and 1st floor light to
each side. Interior: left-hand shop has fireplace with inglenook set
well back from front, evidence of blocked fireplace nearer front. The
house has been altered too. Retains a display cupboard in room to right
on ground floor, above on first floor is a stone fireplace with pulvinated
frieze interrupted by panelled key, shelf over. In rear extension is a
stone fireplace, perhaps contemporary, with eared architrave and frieze
with side pilasters and garland and new shelf - said to come from Priory
so perhaps mid C17 (once in ground floor left hand front room). Attic
retains an arch-braced C15 or early C16 truss partly exposed, possibly for
2-bay 1st floor hall. Plan: former central alley blocked. Long 2-
Storey-and-attic 3-bay gabled wing to rear with further 3-storey wing of 3
windows, hollow chamfer mullions in part (some replicas) altered and
extended to East, gable end wall to North timber-framed at rear with stair
timber-framed at rear with stair lights. The roof line is at different angle on South chimney.

Listing NGR: SP2514712262

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532759

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