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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.
This site will soon contain all Burford wills and inventories for 1500-1699. There will be a glossary to help with obscure words.
The façade is almost entirely of the 1920s (below), but the structure contains remains of another late 15th-century building, whose jetty survives
In 1571 the Burford merchant Simon Wisdom granted a small cottage here to trustees for Burford Grammar school, rebuilding it as 3 cottages in 1576.
An earlier house here is documented from 1435.
This remarkable run of late medieval buildings continues with No.
