The Former George Inn
THE FORMER GEORGE INN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1224560
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Former George Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORMER GEORGE INN, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1224560
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Former George Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORMER GEORGE INN, 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:
- THE FORMER GEORGE INN, 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:
- SP2513012173
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (West Side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) The former George Inn
7/141 (previously listed as premises
12.9.55 adjoining Barclays Bank on the
north)
GV II*
Coaching inn until c.1837. C15 or C16 altered early C17 and in C18, now
shops and offices. Lower parts ashlar, upper parts timber-framed, centre
freestone. In 3 parts to front, central coachway, long rear extensions.
Left hand part slate roofed, the rest Cotswold stone roofs. 2 storeys and
attics; 3 gables to front. The left hand part (Nos 110 and 112)
roughcast; gable to wide angled bay with a glazing bar sash in attic and 3
on 1st floor, pent roof over projecting ground floor in ashlar with C20
openings apart from the 3-light mullion window to the cellar. The central
part is an early C17 remodelling; tall gable with moulded verge and carved
finials to kneelers and saddlestone, 3-light edge-hollow-chamfer mullion
window with drip to attic; moulded window surround with cornice to 1st
floor now with a pair of glazing-bar sashes; wide segmental moulded stone
archway with impost strings and high plinth, inner orders appear to have
been cut down. The right hand part has jettied 1st floor gable with
exposed timber-framing and a (C20 restored) bargeboard with quatrefoil
decoration; 3 C18 glazing-bar sash windows on 1st floor, 2 (mid-C19) on
ground floor and a half-glazed door to left. High cobbled alleyway; high
pointed probably c.1300 archway to left (blocked), Tudor archway to right
in front of a similar c.1300 archway (partly cut away for stairs etc).
Rear picturesque with irregular wings (q.v. No 1-11 consec. Old George
Yard), and 2 gables and a lean-to with irregular windows, the central one
with a wooden cross-mullion window. Interior: rear room of North wing on
ground floor has a fireplace with quatrefoil decoration and a splat-
baluster ventilated cupboard door.
Listing NGR: SP2513012173
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420658
- 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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