The Burford Gallery and Classical House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. House.
The Burford Gallery and Classical House
- WRENN ID
- third-stronghold-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Burford Gallery and Classical House, High Street
- OS grid reference
- SP 251 122
- Coordinates
- 51.80834, -1.63607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Burford Gallery and Classical House is a house that was formerly part of Shoo Cottage. It has a medieval front that was altered in the 17th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of uncoursed rubble with a Cotswold stone roof that extends from Shoo Cottage and is hipped to the right. It has two storeys and an attic. A prominent feature is a heavily moulded 15th-century archway on the right, with the ends of joists from a sawn-off jetty above and part of a label. On the first floor, there are two windows: a three-light hollow chamfer mullion window on the left and a 20th-century four-light metal casement on the right. The ground floor features a mid-20th-century bowed shop window with glazing bars on the left. To the right, there is a projecting blind parapet wall leading to the forecourt of the Methodist Church. There is a long two-storey extension with a reset two-light monolithic lancet window. Inside, the front (west) room has heavy cross beams. The east cross wing of the rear wing contains an excellent early to mid-18th-century panelled room with raised and fielded panels, a modillion cornice, and an enriched overmantel, although it has a 20th-century fireplace. This wing also features a triple glazing-bar sash window in a raised flat surround with cock-beading.
Local climate
The Burford Gallery and Classical House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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