SYMON WYSDOM'S HOUSE

SYMON WYSDOM'S HOUSE, 1, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1223797
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1955
List Entry Name:: SYMON WYSDOM'S HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SYMON WYSDOM'S HOUSE, 1, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1223797
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1955
List Entry Name:: SYMON WYSDOM'S HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SYMON WYSDOM'S HOUSE, 1, HIGH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SYMON WYSDOM'S HOUSE, 1, HIGH STREET

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County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Burford
National Grid Reference:: SP2520612470

Details

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (East side) SP2512 (Enlargement) No 1 (Symon Wysdom's 7/48 House) 12.9.55

GV II*

Almshouses or cottages, now house. Remodelled 1576. Restored late C19 and mid-c20. Coursed rubble, Cotswold stone roof, 3 chimneys. Two storeys. 4 gables in which are 3-light stone mullion windows with drip- moulds. Ground floor has 3 sash windows and plain doorway with chamfered stone lintel. Gables cross-wing to East, extends North as 2-storey stables, 2 windows on 1st floor, 2 doors and a window ground floor, one 3- light oak hollow-chamfered mullion window survives to East, (this part shown as Rose Cottage on OS map). Moulded stone panel on front reads "Symon Wysdom Alderman/the first founder of the Schole/in Burford gave these tenemenes/Wythe the other to the same schole/in an. 1576/all laude and prays be given/to God therefore Amen." Simon Wisdom was a prominent C16 businessman locally and appears to have been involved in most municipal activities between c.1530 to c.1585. In 1855 associated with a wife-selling incident (cost £15). M Graves: The History of Shipton under Wychwood (1934).

Listing NGR: SP2520612470

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Sources

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Graves, M , The History of Shipton under Wychwood, (1934)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.