Until recent times, what buildings were constructed of was conditioned by what building materials were available locally.
Most buildings on Hart Street have brick frontages dating from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
First recorded as Le Herte in 1428-9, the White Hart was Henley's oldest functioning inn until its closure in 1996.
The Chantry House is a high-status, late medieval timber-framed building on the east side of Henley churchyard, north of the the church.
The buildings along Burford's main streets reflect the town's varied social character, which included gentry and professionals as well as shopkeepe
The Great or Warwick Almshouses, founded 1455-6. (Photo by Mike Hesketh-Roberts, English Heritage)
These now separate buildings were formerly the White Hart Inn, said to have been built and opened around 1615 by Richard Merywether. No.
In contrast to the houses further east, buildings from here to the end of Sheep Street resulted from 16th- and 17th-century development of what was
Behind a remodelled 17th-century façade are remains of another medieval house, documented from 1492 when the guild of the chapel of St Mary in Burf
Like the Bay Tree Hotel two centuries later, the 18th-century Lamb Inn comprises an accumulation of several properties.
