Hampton and Sons
HAMPTON AND SONS, 96, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1224332
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Hampton and Sons
- Statutory Address:
- HAMPTON AND SONS, 96, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1224332
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Hampton and Sons
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAMPTON AND SONS, 96, 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:
- HAMPTON AND SONS, 96, 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:
- SP2513512194
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (West Side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) No 96 (Hampton and
7/139 Sons) (Previously
12.9.55 listed as Rose and Crown)
GV II*
House and hostelry, now offices. C16, altered C19 and C20. Rubble with
Cotswold stone roof, corniced rubble end chimney and an ashlar chimney to
left on wall-face. 2 storeys and attic; 2 gabled dormers. 2 windows on
1st floor, casements, the lefthand are of 3-lights with wooden mullions
rather dislocated, the right hand one a C20 mullion and transom window.
To ground floor a projecting rubble shop front with 2 glazing-bar sash
windows, a pair and a treble; Cotswold stone pentice roof over extending
across set-back entry; the latter is Tudor arched with a stilted label and
has in the spandrel Simon Wysdom's wool mark and the date 1578; studded
door with studded inscription "Rose and Crown 1915." Inside, alleyway
screen (modern replacement) to left. To rear: timber segment-headed C16
doorway with 2-light wooden mullion window over. Interior: On first
floor, room has cross-beam ceiling with chamfered joists and a hooded
fireplace on rounded corbels, on 2nd floor a plain Tudor-arched chamfered
fireplace. Simon Wysdom was a clothier, mercer and farmer as well as a
property dealer, he was involved in local government and charities, for
instance he founded Burford Grammar School, and he died in 1586.
Listing NGR: SP2513512194
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420373
- 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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