Description

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (West Side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) No 96 (Hampton and
7/139 Sons) (Previously
12.9.55 listed as Rose and Crown)

GV II*

House and hostelry, now offices. C16, altered C19 and C20. Rubble with
Cotswold stone roof, corniced rubble end chimney and an ashlar chimney to
left on wall-face. 2 storeys and attic; 2 gabled dormers. 2 windows on
1st floor, casements, the lefthand are of 3-lights with wooden mullions
rather dislocated, the right hand one a C20 mullion and transom window.
To ground floor a projecting rubble shop front with 2 glazing-bar sash
windows, a pair and a treble; Cotswold stone pentice roof over extending
across set-back entry; the latter is Tudor arched with a stilted label and
has in the spandrel Simon Wysdom's wool mark and the date 1578; studded
door with studded inscription "Rose and Crown 1915." Inside, alleyway
screen (modern replacement) to left. To rear: timber segment-headed C16
doorway with 2-light wooden mullion window over. Interior: On first
floor, room has cross-beam ceiling with chamfered joists and a hooded
fireplace on rounded corbels, on 2nd floor a plain Tudor-arched chamfered
fireplace. Simon Wysdom was a clothier, mercer and farmer as well as a
property dealer, he was involved in local government and charities, for
instance he founded Burford Grammar School, and he died in 1586.

Listing NGR: SP2513512194

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532483

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