Calendars

BURFORD AND UPTON SHEEP STREET AND SIGNET (South side) SP2512 (Enlargement) Calendars 7/202 12.9.55

GV II*

House. Late C15, restored 1912-28. Ashlar ground floor, partly on moulded plinth, jettied and timber-framed first floor, Cotswold stone roof. 2 storeys and attic; C20 chimney to left; simple dormer to right. 2 windows in close-studded 1st floor, glazing-bar sashes, the right-hand one jettied further out, formerly probably with gable, moulded bressumer; Tudor-arch-headed light in return to west. Ground floor has a deep hollow-chamfer window to right with inserted early C19 30-pane Yorkshire sashes; to left an angled bay with small-pane windows. Roughly central Tudor arch doorway in deep hollow - chamfer surround with inner moulding and panelled spandrels; half-glazed early-mid C19 door; small window to right of central jetty beams. Heavy stone corbel and rib of stone to left. The ridge of the jettied part is higher than the right-hand structural wall and the matching bay to left (q.v. under Cottage to east of Calendars). Jettied L-plan extension to rear with cross-wing to courtyard. Interior altered, moulded cross-beam ceiling to ground floor west part. Thought to have preceded The Tolsey (q.v.) as Burford's Gild Room. M.S.Gretton: Burford Part and Present (Revised 1945).

Listing NGR: SP2503312160