Jackie'S Tea Rooms The Antiquary

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (West Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) No 70 (The Antiquary) 7/132 and No 68 (Jackie's 12.9.55 Tea Rooms) (Previously listed as House and Shop premises next but two on the South of New College)

GV II*

House, partly a shop. c.1700-20 front breaking forward, with C15/early C16 origins. Freestone front on chamfered plinth, Cotswold stone roof with end chimnies, the right-hand one stunted ashlar. Usual L-plan, front in local Baroque style. 2 storeys and attics, right-hand part on cellar; central gabled dormer, heavy cornice and parapet, 6 windows on 1st floor, the left-hand treble, right-hand paired, glazing-bar sashes in moulded architraves and with moulded keys, ground floor right-hand also paired. Mid-late C19 projecting shop-front with shallow arch glazing in 4:1 bays and recessed entrance with carved bracket supporting fascia to right; ashlar dwarf wall with heavy chamfered plinth and cellar grate. Pedimented doorcase with architrave and pulvinated frieze to right of centre. Lead rain-water head and pipe to each side and 1st floor light to each side. Interior: left-hand shop has fireplace with inglenook set well back from front, evidence of blocked fireplace nearer front. The house has been altered too. Retains a display cupboard in room to right on ground floor, above on first floor is a stone fireplace with pulvinated frieze interrupted by panelled key, shelf over. In rear extension is a stone fireplace, perhaps contemporary, with eared architrave and frieze with side pilasters and garland and new shelf - said to come from Priory so perhaps mid C17 (once in ground floor left hand front room). Attic retains an arch-braced C15 or early C16 truss partly exposed, possibly for 2-bay 1st floor hall. Plan: former central alley blocked. Long 2- Storey-and-attic 3-bay gabled wing to rear with further 3-storey wing of 3 windows, hollow chamfer mullions in part (some replicas) altered and extended to East, gable end wall to North timber-framed at rear with stair timber-framed at rear with stair lights. The roof line is at different angle on South chimney.

Listing NGR: SP2514712262