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Late Medieval (1398-1485)

1398-1485

At No. 94, now called Christmas Court, the canopy with supporting columns, the boxed shopfront, and the bay windows are all 19th-century.

Though substantially remodelled both buildings are of medieval origin, and were apparently of moderately high status.

This imposing, early 18th-century ashlar front in Taynton stone hides remains of a 15th- or 16th-century building behind.

Behind the 17th- and 18th-century fronts of these four separate houses and shops are remains of more medieval buildings. Nos.

These two buildings probably began as a single late-medieval range: No.

Behind the 18th-century ashlar façade, rebuilt in the 1970s after a collapse, is a 5-bay late medieval house, whose roof has principal-rafter truss

 The stone archway to the street is late 14th-century, and though it may have been reset, parts of the house are medieval.

The double-gabled smooth stone frontage of c.1903 conceals remains of another medieval house.

A house here is documented from 1473, when the prominent Burford merchant John Pinnock left it first to his son and granddaughter, and then to the

These houses began as a medieval hall-house (history unknown). No. 15 (left) comprised the service end, and No.

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