Bay Tree Hotel
BAY TREE HOTEL, SHEEP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225264
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bay Tree Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- BAY TREE HOTEL, SHEEP STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225264
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bay Tree Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAY TREE HOTEL, SHEEP 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:
- BAY TREE HOTEL, SHEEP 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:
- SP2501912205
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON SHEEP STREET
AND SIGNET (North side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) Bay Tree Hotel
7/192
12.9.55
GV II
Burgage house, formerly Tanfield House (owned by Tanfield in 1580).
Present structure late C17, restored and altered c.1936. Freeston on
chamfered plinth, Cotswold stone roof. Gabled front. Weathered coping to
gables, large square end stacks in 3 (to left) and 2 (to right) with joint
cornices. Main block has 3 gables. C20 oak window frames; windows of 3
and 4 lights with stone drips. Central Tudor-arch doorway with drip,
restored oak door. 2-bay C20 extension in similar style with stone
mullion windows and patterned lead glazing. Interior: cross-passage
slopes down to rear door, rear passage as at The Lamb (q.v.); both front
rooms have Tudor arch fireplaces, rear room to N.W. has fine Siena marble
bolection fireplace. Courtyard to rear formerly early-mid C19 cross-wing
and 2 rear extensions. Extensions to eastern alleyway irregular.
Listing NGR: SP2501912205
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421555
- 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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