London House The Crypt Antiques

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (East Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) No 109 (London House 7/83 and The Crypt 12.9.55 Antiques)

GV II*

House with shop premises. Late C15, altered early C19 and restored. Exposed timber frame with plastered infill, hipped stone slate roof, partly stone-clad South return. Double jettied, 1st floor jetty underbuilt. 3 storeys on vaulted undercroft; jettied 2nd floor with underbuilt oriel bay to 1st floor. On 2nd floor a pair of mid-C19 wide- pane sashes set in timber-frame outer bays which have blind Tudor-arched openings (and one in North return); on 1st floor a rectangular eriel bay with early to mid-C19 glazing bar sashes with flanking 2-light cinquefoiled blocked windows. Slated lean-to to boxed out shop front on ashlar plinth, latter has an opening to undercroft. Cobbled forecourt. L-plan to rear with cross-wing to East. According to BOE there is a pargetted panel in the rear wing dated "A.H.1710"; plastered timber-frame on heavily moulded plinth, wide chamfered eaves overhang, 4-light window to ground floor right with paired glazing bar sashes and outer mediaeval lights. Interior: famous and excellent L-plan (4:2 bay) vaulted under- croft with Tudor arched quardipartite chamfered ribs, octagonal pier to 4 bay front part, 2 openings to West (one to shop and one to street), stairs in angle reached from 2-bay part, aumbries in most bays. High ground floor, archway to rear now impeded by stair turret, early C18 dog-leg stairs. Excellent fireplace on lst floor, moulded flat-headed surround with 7 quatrefoils in frieze. Rear wing has early C18 panelling, complete ground floor and including a corner fire-place, extensive on 1st floor, hipped roof reusing earlier timber, including one side of a raised cruck. Front roof structure: 2 bays, 2 purlins with 2 rows of wind-braces; L-wing roof structure: some evidence of smoke blackening.

Listing NGR: SP2515312140