Description

BURFORD

SO56NE Burford House and garden wall
582-1/8/19 attached to the south-east.
12/11/54

GV II*

House. Early to mid C18, reputed to be built in 1728 for
William Bowles M.P., proprietor of the Vauxhall glass works.
Restored and altered c1954 for John Treasure. Red brick with
brick storey bands and brick parapet. Plain-tile roof with
brick coped parapets and gables. Brick integral gable-end
stacks with lateral and axial stacks. Double-pile plan with
rear parallel extension.
EXTERIOR: north front is a 3-storey 6-window range of tall 9/9
sashes to ground and first floors, and 6/6 second-floor
sashes, all with gauged brick lintels. Early C19 central
projecting porch with Doric columns and open pediment. Front
door set in panelled reveals, with pair of glazed panelled
doors with fanlight with radial glazing bars.
Later brick wings on east and west sides now demolished. East
side now with C20 multi-pane casements at ground and first
floor. West side with C20 first-floor sash and ground-floor
French windows with flanking casements, terrace to west formed
from demolished wing and incorporating stone from base of
medieval chimney.
Rear: 3-storey 5-window range of 6/6 sashes with gauged brick
lintels, central restored projecting porch mirroring the front
porch and with glazed door and fanlight with festoon and
radial glazing bars.
INTERIOR: contains some good panelling to ground-floor rooms.
The entrance hall has complete wall panelling, moulded
cornices, 6-panelled doors, and elliptical arched panelled
arcade.
Brick walls approximately 3 metres high with weathered coping
extending from the south-east corner of Burford House
approximately 80 metres to the east and then 40 metres to the
south.

Listing NGR: SO5821267972

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Burford House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17551348

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)