Various dates have been given for the Court from 1518 to 1550s or later.
Its primary function was as a market house - the name 'Tolsey', found particularly in the Cotswolds and Wiltshire, suggests a place where market to
Burford's earliest surviving inn building is the front part of the New Inn at 124 High Street (built c.1401).
It is more likely to have been written by a Flemish worker employed to plaster or panel the room, who may not have intended the texts to be seen.
The desire to introduce fashionable features, such as a top-floor long gallery, into country houses demanded new solutions to make them possible.
By 1700 Sunderland was 'noted for its sea coal trade', supplying a 'great quantity of coals' and employing 'great numbers of ships yearly in carryi
