The Great Almshouses is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Almshouses. 5 related planning applications.
The Great Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- rusted-quartz-equinox
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Type
- Almshouses
- Source
- Historic England listing
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
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