124, High Street, Burford

No 124 on High Street in Burford is a Grade II* listed house that was once a hostelry and shop. It was remodeled around 1700 to 1720 from a 15th-century building, incorporating an earlier roof structure. The front features a jettied timber frame that is rendered, except for the right-hand part which is made of rubble. The side elevation is also rubble, and the building has a hipped Cotswold stone roof with an ashlar chimney on the left. It is designed in an L-shape.

The house has two storeys, with a pair of glazing-bar sash windows on the first floor set in moulded architraves, and a Cotswold stone pentice above the front. There is a restored angled bay window with glazing bars to the left and a wooden panelled screen from around 1700 to the right, which has two glazing-bar sash windows. To the west, there is a hipped one-bay return extension and a set-back two-storey wing with three windows.

Inside the shop, there is a large octagonal timber post in the center of the ground floor bressumer, which has residual moulding at the top. A newel stair is located in the angle with a paired entry door; the stairs feature slender balusters that may date to around 1720. In the rear lobby, there is a splat-baluster ventilated larder door. The roof structure is significant: the hall has a large intact arch-braced truss at the north end, which has chamfered edges and smoke blackening. The former solar roof is lower and consists of four bays; it has two arch-braced trusses on tie-beams, carrying a square ridge with king-posts leading to low saddlepieces. The ridges are braced from the king posts, and the edges are chamfered, although the wind-braces have been removed. This type of roof structure has only been found in one other local example, at the Old Rectory in Westwell.

Originally, this building was known as the "Novum Hospitium Anycilere."