Image: Phyllis Court as rebuilt in the 1840s. Its predecessor was garrisoned and fortified during the Civil War.
The present-day Phyllis Court is a stuccoed, Italianate mansion house on Henley's northern edge, built in the early 1840s.
Image: handbill advertising winter services from the White Hart Inn (by John Alleway), 1717. Read more, or read Alleway's will
Image: Henley from the Wargrave Road (1698), by Jan Siberechts; courtesy of the River & Rowing Museum, Henley on Thames
Until recent times, what buildings were constructed of was conditioned by what building materials were available locally.
The Burford/Henley Probat
First recorded as Le Herte in 1428-9, the White Hart was Henley's oldest functioning inn until its closure in 1996.
When complete this website will contain transcripts of all the wills and inventories for Burford for the period 1500 to 1700.
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)
