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Victorian (1837-1901)

1837-1901

This is a mid to late 17th-century house with contemporary attic windows in the twin gables.

The early-to-mid 19th-century ashlar façade of this tall 3-storey building hides elements of a medieval house, including two 15th-century fireplace

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

Both these buildings probably began as 17th-century stone cottages. No.

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

Behind this house in the 19th century lay one of Burford's cramped 'cottage yards', home to labourers, hawkers, and other impoverished inhabitants

The elegant 3-storey house now called No.

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.

William Cox, an upholsterer and cabinet maker, rebuilt and enlarged No.

A vicarage house stood on part of this site from the Middle Ages, and a surviving medieval range at the rear may be part of it.

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