This site will soon contain all Burford wills and inventories for 1500-1699. There will be a glossary to help with obscure words.
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.
Both houses contain medieval cores behind later façades, which were further remodelled in the 20th century. The roof structure of No.
These three separate houses may have begun as a single large medieval hall-house, the hall (with cellar) on the site of No.
A deed of 1608 records that this house had been recently rebuilt by John Collier (died 1634), keeper of the George Inn, who incorporated it into th
Timber-framed and set on octagonal stone columns, the Tolsey is typical of a broad range of market houses, town halls, and moot- or guildhalls foun
No. 127 contains probably 15th-century remains, notably an internal 2-centred archway at the back of the shop and a nearby rear-facing window.
The earliest feature is a stone Caernarvon archway in the right-hand front room, with the characteristic ‘shoulders’ of the late 13th century.
This united rubblestone front conceals a jumble of rooms and phases and some re-used timber.
