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Late Medieval (1398-1485)

1398-1485

This small early 14th-century house, though heavily remodelled, may be Burford's earliest surviving domestic building, and is documented from the 1

This notable late-medieval house is comparable to some broadly contemporary examples on High Street.

Until unified as a single shop in the 20th century, these properties were quite distinct.

Like No. 12 (Bull Cottage), No. 14 is documented from the 1390s.

No. 16 Witney Street is modern, built c.1990 on the site of the former Agg's builders' yard.

Several houses at Witney Street's north-west end (before the modern cul-de-sac of Sylvester Close) began as outbuildings for premises on High Stree

Externally there are few clues to the age and interest of this building.

The basic plan suggests that these three cottages began as a medieval hall-house, remodelled with fireplaces and first floor in the mid 17th centur

Until the 19th century this was a single house (as it still looks externally).

Though substantially rebuilt, these two small cottages and two adjoining houses originated probably as two neighbouring medieval houses. Nos.

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