Description

BURFORD AND UPTON CHURCH LANE
AND SIGNET (East Side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) The Great Almshouses.
7/5
12.9.55

GV II*

Also known as, and shown on map as, Warwick Almshouses. Mid C15, restored
(and altered) 1828. Coursed rubble, Cotswold stone roof; 2 storeys,
coped verge string over 1st floor. Coped verge to right, 2 rubble
chimneys. 4 windows, 2-light lancet type with foiled heads, labels to
ground floor windows and ferramenta, 2 low Tudor arch doors with labels
and a central one with traceried spandrels and label. Outer slightly
raised Tudor arch doorways (blocked) with labels.
Tablet over central doorway inscribed "These almshouses were founded by
Richard Earl of Warwick in the year 1457 and were rebuilt in the year
1828." Blocked doorway to right of this. L-plan wings to rear. J
Sherwood & N Pevsner Buildings of England: Oxford (1974). R & M Moody:
The Story of Burford (1983). R H Gretton: The Burford Records (1920).

Listing NGR: SP2529212345

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531559

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)