Symon Wysdom'S House

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (East side) SP2512 (Enlargement) No 1 (Symon Wysdom's 7/48 House) 12.9.55

GV II*

Almshouses or cottages, now house. Remodelled 1576. Restored late C19 and mid-c20. Coursed rubble, Cotswold stone roof, 3 chimneys. Two storeys. 4 gables in which are 3-light stone mullion windows with drip- moulds. Ground floor has 3 sash windows and plain doorway with chamfered stone lintel. Gables cross-wing to East, extends North as 2-storey stables, 2 windows on 1st floor, 2 doors and a window ground floor, one 3- light oak hollow-chamfered mullion window survives to East, (this part shown as Rose Cottage on OS map). Moulded stone panel on front reads "Symon Wysdom Alderman/the first founder of the Schole/in Burford gave these tenemenes/Wythe the other to the same schole/in an. 1576/all laude and prays be given/to God therefore Amen." Simon Wisdom was a prominent C16 businessman locally and appears to have been involved in most municipal activities between c.1530 to c.1585. In 1855 associated with a wife-selling incident (cost £15). M Graves: The History of Shipton under Wychwood (1934).

Listing NGR: SP2520612470