Bear Court
BEAR COURT, 34,36,38,38A,42, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224322
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bear Court
- Statutory Address:
- BEAR COURT, 34,36,38,38A,42, HIGH STREET
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- 2006-06-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/12468/20
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224322
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Bear Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEAR COURT, 34,36,38,38A,42, 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:
- BEAR COURT, 34,36,38,38A,42, 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 25150 12343
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (West Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) Nos 34, 36, 38, 38a, 40 7/121 and 42 (Bear Court) 12.9.55 (Previously listed as Bear Inn).
GV II
Former inn. Front perhaps C16 (with Falkland Hall), refenestrated:- c. 1800. Coursed and squared rubble on chamfered plinth, Cotswold stone roof. U-plan with alley to left. 2 storeys at attic. 2 hipped dormers, C20 brick chimney to right. 1 range of windows, on 1st floor a glazing- bar sash in raised flat surround with keystone, on ground floor a glazing- bar shop window. Tall and wide Tudor arched entry to left with label raised over; ogee molded surround with keystone and panelled spandrels - sours to predate Falkland Hall (q.v.). Cobbled alley. Courtyard to rear with 2-storey 5-bay wing linking with barn or store-house cross wing with open ground floor. Interior: ground floor front room has a Tudor arch fireplace with roses in the spandrels (moved here from 1st floor). Perhaps once part of the adjacent property to North-see plinth - rather than associated with Falkland Hall (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SP2515012343
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420348
- 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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