Hampton And Sons

Hampton and Sons is a house and former inn, now used as offices, dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of rubble with a Cotswold stone roof, featuring a corniced rubble end chimney and an ashlar chimney on the left side of the wall. It has two storeys and an attic, with two gabled dormers. On the first floor, there are two casement windows; the left window is a three-light design with wooden mullions that are somewhat dislocated, while the right window is a 20th-century mullion and transom window.

The ground floor features a projecting rubble shop front with two glazing-bar sash windows, arranged as a pair and a treble. Above this is a Cotswold stone pentice roof that extends over a set-back entry, which has a Tudor arched shape with a stilted label. In the spandrel of the entry, there is Simon Wysdom's wool mark and the date 1578. The door is studded and bears the inscription "Rose and Crown 1915." Inside, there is a modern replacement alleyway screen to the left. At the rear, there is a timber segment-headed 16th-century doorway with a two-light wooden mullion window above it.

Inside, on the first floor, one room features a cross-beam ceiling with chamfered joists and a hooded fireplace supported by rounded corbels. On the second floor, there is a plain Tudor-arched chamfered fireplace. Simon Wysdom, associated with the building, was a clothier, mercer, farmer, and property dealer, who also engaged in local government and charitable activities, including founding Burford Grammar School. He passed away in 1586.