Content generated during research for the paperback book 'Burford: Buildings and People in a Cotswold Town' (ISBN 13 : 9781860774881) for the England's Past for Everyone series
The building retains a Tudor-arched fireplace and probably the roof from an earlier structure: the roof’s 'waney' ridge suggests pre-17th-century t
The Bear Inn was established here probably in the late 1640s by Thomas Matthews (died 1680).
The double-gabled smooth stone frontage of c.1903 conceals remains of another medieval house.
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This rubblestone façade would once have been rendered: most of the window surrounds have been pecked to allow render to adhere properly, in an 18th
In 1652 a house here was owned by William Elston and held by William Haynes; by 1685 the owner was William Lenthall esquire (of The Priory), and th
A house here is documented from 1473, when the prominent Burford merchant John Pinnock left it first to his son and granddaughter, and then to the
These houses began as a medieval hall-house (history unknown). No. 15 (left) comprised the service end, and No.
This 19th-century rendered shopfront conceals a medieval house (history unknown), which was mostly timber-framed and had an open hall.
Though ownership is unknown before the 1820s this prominent building may have been an inn, as suggested by the wide entrance under an elliptical ho
