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
This prime corner-site was an inn from the 15th to late 18th century, recorded first as the Bear (in 1489), and from 1539 as the Angel.
This site will soon contain all Burford wills and inventories for 1500-1699. There will be a glossary to help with obscure words.
Although there is a 17th-century rear range, this stylish house was probably built in the 1790s (owner unknown).
The façade is almost entirely of the 1920s (below), but the structure contains remains of another late 15th-century building, whose jetty survives
In 1571 the Burford merchant Simon Wisdom granted a small cottage here to trustees for Burford Grammar school, rebuilding it as 3 cottages in 1576.
An earlier house here is documented from 1435.
This remarkable run of late medieval buildings continues with No.
A timber-framed building of c.1500 lies behind this tall frontage.
The rendered façade of this tall narrow building hides a medieval timber-framed house, owned in 1489 by John Bishop.
