LONDON HOUSE THE CRYPT ANTIQUES

LONDON HOUSE, 109, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1224036
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1955
List Entry Name:: LONDON HOUSE THE CRYPT ANTIQUES
Statutory Address:: LONDON HOUSE, 109, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1224036
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1955
List Entry Name:: LONDON HOUSE THE CRYPT ANTIQUES
Statutory Address 1:: LONDON HOUSE, 109, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: THE CRYPT ANTIQUES, HIGH STREET

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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:: LONDON HOUSE, 109, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: THE CRYPT ANTIQUES, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Burford
National Grid Reference:: SP 25153 12140

Details

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (East Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) No 109 (London House 7/83 and The Crypt 12.9.55 Antiques)

GV II*

House with shop premises. Late C15, altered early C19 and restored. Exposed timber frame with plastered infill, hipped stone slate roof, partly stone-clad South return. Double jettied, 1st floor jetty underbuilt. 3 storeys on vaulted undercroft; jettied 2nd floor with underbuilt oriel bay to 1st floor. On 2nd floor a pair of mid-C19 wide- pane sashes set in timber-frame outer bays which have blind Tudor-arched openings (and one in North return); on 1st floor a rectangular eriel bay with early to mid-C19 glazing bar sashes with flanking 2-light cinquefoiled blocked windows. Slated lean-to to boxed out shop front on ashlar plinth, latter has an opening to undercroft. Cobbled forecourt. L-plan to rear with cross-wing to East. According to BOE there is a pargetted panel in the rear wing dated "A.H.1710"; plastered timber-frame on heavily moulded plinth, wide chamfered eaves overhang, 4-light window to ground floor right with paired glazing bar sashes and outer mediaeval lights. Interior: famous and excellent L-plan (4:2 bay) vaulted under- croft with Tudor arched quardipartite chamfered ribs, octagonal pier to 4 bay front part, 2 openings to West (one to shop and one to street), stairs in angle reached from 2-bay part, aumbries in most bays. High ground floor, archway to rear now impeded by stair turret, early C18 dog-leg stairs. Excellent fireplace on lst floor, moulded flat-headed surround with 7 quatrefoils in frieze. Rear wing has early C18 panelling, complete ground floor and including a corner fire-place, extensive on 1st floor, hipped roof reusing earlier timber, including one side of a raised cruck. Front roof structure: 2 bays, 2 purlins with 2 rows of wind-braces; L-wing roof structure: some evidence of smoke blackening.

Listing NGR: SP2515312140

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Legacy System number:: 419983
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.