Description

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (West side)
SP2411-2511 No 192 (Clematis
6/169 Cottage), No 190
12.9.55 (Hound Cottage) and No
188 (The Cottage)
(previously listed as
"2 cottages adjoining
East view to North.")

GV II

Three cottages. Late C17/early C18 altered. Coursed rubble with Cotswold
stone roof. 3 ridge chimneys, outer brick and a large one of brick and
ashlar to right of centre. Plan hints at mediaeval origins (unlikely
given location however) ; the two Northern cottages entered from alley. 2
storeys and attic on chamfered plinth. 3 gabled dormers. Irregular
fenestration, 2- and 3-light casements with timber lintels, the 2 central
ones on 1st floor moulded. Ledged doors alternating with ground floor
windows, the right-hand on to alley (chamfered lintel). Interior:
Clematis Cottage retains a good Tudor-arch fireplace with panelled
spandrels on both ground and first floors; wide-chamfered beams, in roof
structure a re-used collar truss with evidence of wind-bracing. No 188,
which once contained a bakehouse, retains newel stairs beside front
(concealed) chimney.

Listing NGR: SP2506911947

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26557088

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)