Swan Gallery
SWAN GALLERY, 127, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224150
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Swan Gallery
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN GALLERY, 127, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224150
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Swan Gallery
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAN GALLERY, 127, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN GALLERY, 127, 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:
- SP2514712060
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (East Side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) No 127 (Swan Gallery)
7/92 (Previously listed as
12.9.55 "White Swan Inn").
GV II
House and shop, previously inn. C16 front remodelled in early C19 and
restored. Coursed rubble, slate roof with brick chimney on rubble plinth
to left. Main feature of front is a continuous timber lintel and cill to
1st floor. 2 storeys and attic; 2 gabled dormers with leaded lights. 2
windows, 16-pane sashes on 1st floor, 2 hipped bays on ground floor with
glazing-bar sashes. North return to Swan Lane has evidence of steeper
pitch roof; moulded plinth, oak 1st floor window, 2 lights ogee moulded
with imbricated decoration to surround and to lintel. 2-storey rear
extension of 3:2 bays, mixed sashes and casements and a further extension
of single storey and attic beyond. Interior. On ground floor: wide
fire-place with curved corners, chamfered pointed-arch door to rear;
fairly closely-spaced stop-chamfered joints; long rear wing with a variety
of ceiling heights and beams, chamfered Tudor-arched fire-place to East.
First floor fire place with wooden lintel, beside it is a fine
oak/chestnut wood food cupboard with splat balusters on 2 levels; further
closed C17 cupboard to right of fireplace. Roof structure with cut-back
ties with triangulated strainers, stop - chamfered members.
Listing NGR: SP2514712060
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419993
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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