Anthony Nielsen Antiques

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (West Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) No 80 (Anthony Nielsen 7/135 Antiques) (Previously 12.9.55 listed as "House and Shop premises adjoining Mermaid Inn on the south)

GV II

House with shop. C18 front to C15 or C16 house and show-room, restored C20. Rubble with Cotswold stone roof. L-plan with skew front. 2 storeys with parapet; large chimney to left. 2 windows, glazing-bar sashes with timber lintels on 1st floor. 2 wide shallow C20 bows on ground floor to shop front flanking entrance. The plan seems to consist of skew unheated shop/show-room premises in front with high deep chamfered beams to ceiling; pointed archway to rear alley; door and window in spine wall (altered) with steps up. Rear room with partitions removed, fine cross beam (moulded) ceiling and fine wide c.1500 flat headed moulded fireplace under high relieving arch and with tracery panelled reveals and corners. The room over the shop has 2 skew-plan raised crucks with arch braced collars and evidence of wind-bracing, moulded Tudor arch fireplace. Rear room (lst floor) as plain Tudor arch fireplace, above is a tie-beam roof with wide braces and a square ridge. Laithwaite's interpretation (the earliest recorded one room house refronted C16, floored C17 and rear wing of c.1600) needs revision.

Listing NGR: SP2513812227