The Tolsey is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Town-hall, market-house.
The Tolsey
- WRENN ID
- weathered-vault-wax
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Type
- Town-hall, market-house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (West Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) The Tolsey 7/147 12.9.55
GV II*
Town-hall and market-house. C16 (1st documented 1561). Rendered timber- frame raised on stone piers, Cotswold stone roof. L-plan, open front to ground floor. Gabled 2-storey front, coved eaves. Two C20 angled bays on 1st floor with 1:4:1 lights. Open 4 x 2-bay ground floor on octagonal stone piers, Tudor arch niche to rear. The right hand front gable has a pair of beams projecting with late C19 circular clock and a bell below. The side elevation is angled to Sheep Street. 2-storey extension to rear with a pair of glazing-bar sashes to North and an ashlar chimney. Interior: the front 2-bay chamber has a central post with arched braces to flanking trusses, the rear part has stepped corbels to truss. The lock-up (studded door survives) was probably at rear on ground floor. The front was used to house the fire engine up the early in the C20. Now a museum of Burford.
Listing NGR: SP2511712134
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