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Hampton and Sons

A Grade II* Listed Building in Burford, Oxfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8078 / 51°48'28"N

Longitude: -1.6368 / 1°38'12"W

OS Eastings: 425135

OS Northings: 212194

OS Grid: SP251121

Mapcode National: GBR 5SW.M06

Mapcode Global: VHBZS.LT1H

Plus Code: 9C3WR957+47

Entry Name: Hampton and Sons

Listing Date: 12 September 1955

Last Amended: 1 March 1990

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1224332

English Heritage Legacy ID: 420373

ID on this website: 101224332

Location: Burford, West Oxfordshire, OX18

County: Oxfordshire

District: West Oxfordshire

Civil Parish: Burford

Built-Up Area: Burford

Traditional County: Oxfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Burford

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


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

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