Oxford Knitwear Wj Castle (Butchers)

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (East Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) No 111 (WJ Castle 7/84 (Butchers) and No 113 12.9.55 (Oxford Knitwear) (Previously listed as "Premises adjoining London House to South and next but one South of London House)

GV II*

House. C15 or early C16. Pebble dash over timber-frame, Cotswold stone roof, brick chimney to left. U-plan sophisticated elevation. 2 storeys; 3 gables to front with carved bargeboards, 2 of them original. 3 oriel bays to 1st floor with timber mullion and transom windows of 1:4:1 lights Boxed-out shop front on ashlar base with lean-to Cotswold stone roof. A pair of early-mid C19 glazing-bar sashes to left. Interior: 2 moulded posts to former jetty bressumer; East room (at end of rear extension) panelled, Tudor-arched fire-place with arcaded oak over mantel in Jacobean style, 2 moulded cross beams. Timber-framed L-plan 2-storey rear wing with coved eaves, 5-light wooden window with arched heads; continues in stone with same coved eaves into which breaks a trefoil-headed C15 window, blocked doorway with drip below, carved saddle-stone at East end. East gable partly rendered; steep Tudor-arched window (containing a pair of C19 sashes) to 1st floor, 4-light hollow chamfered mullion windows with stilted drips to ground floor. The gable to rear of main wing is in coursed and squared rubble and has a 2-light oak mullioned window partially overlaid by lower 2-storey South-East wing, this is in part timber-framed and has 2 windows on 1st floor (partly with C18 leading), and 3 windows on ground floor with ashlar mullions, centre part with Yorkshire sashes; further 3-bay extension to East, then a single-storey and finally a one-and-half storey wing in the yard. Covered gantry (C20) between the two wings. Tudor arched fireplace in 2-storey part of S.E. wing. Interior: rear room of Oxford Knitwear has substantial, partly re-used timber and C16 and C17 grafitti on a post. See: M Laithwaite, Perspectives in Urban History (1973, ed. Everitt).

Listing NGR: SP2515112130