High Street (east): No. 69

 The stone archway to the street is late 14th-century, and though it may have been reset, parts of the house are medieval. Just above the arch are the ends of floor-joists possibly from a former jetty; the joists can be seen in the alley, laid flat in medieval style. The quality of the stonework changes above the line of timbers, suggesting that the upper storey has been rebuilt, probably in the 17th century.

Seventeenth-century owners (the earliest for which there is evidence) included John Templer (died 1626), his son-in-law the Revd Edward Davis of Shilton (fl. 1652), Edward Davis of London, goldsmith (died 1680), and the Revd Robert Glyn of Little Rissington (recorded 1680–99). Glyn's son Robert, a presumably wealthy London salter, may have installed the fine raised and fielded panelling and shell-hooded alcove cupboard in one of the rooms to the rear, which extends some way down its plot. Throughout that period the house seems, however, to have been mostly let to the Haynes family, shoemakers and shopkeepers, who bought it in 1742. Later owners included Henry Mander (1806), shopkeeper, whose family remained here in 1841, and from 1846 George Hambidge, grocer, draper, and wine and tea merchant, whose family remained until the early 20th century. In the passage are some metal rails, chains, and hooks dating from the building’s use as a grocer’s.

The roof-line was lowered in the 20th century to link it with No. 67 next door, and the first-floor windows were moved at the same time. The boxed shop window on a stone plinth is mid 20th-century. In the late 20th century the building was a dress shop, and in 2007 the Burford Gallery.

See: Pevsner, Buildings of England: Oxfordshire (1974), 517; RH Gretton, The Burford Records (1920), 448; A Jewell, Burford in Old Photographs (1985) 55

(Photo by Heather Horner, Oxfordshire Buildings Record)