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Hanoverian (1714-1837)

1714-1837

These two small adjoining cottages, though of different date, were both altered in the 19th century, and their low ground-floor ceilings remain vis

This smart façade hides an earlier house, owned in 1685 by Richard Bartholomew.

This intriguing building has an alleged but unproven connection with the clothier Edmund Silvester (died 1569) - see Falkland Hall and Edmund Silve

In origin this is another jettied, timber-framed building with fine carved bargeboards of the late 15th century, built for an unknown owner and inc

Dominating what is now a narrow side street of small cottages, The Great House is one of three large gentry houses in Burford, and one of the few B

This smart 17th-century façade of neatly squared limestone blocks, with characteristic drip-moulds over the first-floor windows, probably unites tw

The three rubblestone cottages numbered 20, 22 and 24 are probably all of 17th-century origin, and may have once formed a single property: the fron

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.

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

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