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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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ed and adapted for shops
and dwellings, and unfortunately thoroughly modernised at the same
time. The principal one of these inns was known as the Sherborne
Arms, and prior to that it was called The Lamb. It is situated on
the main road in the centre of the town, and is the original Great
House given by William Dutton in 1619, together with ^200, for the
use of the poor. The house before it was converted into an inn wa
sused as a store for wool and cloth, and previous to that it was let piece-
meal to seventeen tenants, who occupied on the condition of vacating
if a clothier or weaver in fustians applied. The front of the house has
been much altered ; an archway is still existing, in the spandrel of
which are the remains of what appear to have been a Tudor rose. In
the side wall facing the lane is a long range of old buildings, in which is
a two-light window of Tudor form, terminating at the end with a gable
of quite mediaeval outline, having buttresses of fifteenth - century
THE GREEN, NORTHLEACH.
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Page 7
ENTRANCES TO THE GREEN AND THE MARKET-PLACE,
NORTHLEACH.
View taken from the bottom of Btirford Street.
NORTHLEACH. 7
character. As the Great House was not built until 1619, it would
appear that these are earlier buildings, or else, which is more probable,
that the Tudor forms prevailed very late in this town.
The back of these buildings, as seen from the inside, possesses some
timber framing and the remains of what seems to have been a fine
stone chimney. Much of the old stabling has been pulled down.
Opposite the Great House are two old Cotswold houses, with
stone-mullioned windows.
Near by is the Royal Oak, probably of early eighteenth-century
date, which possesses a panelled room and carved oak stair, both of
the usual eighteenth-century type.
Just beyond this, up the Burford Street, in a side-walk, is a portion
of the head of a cusped window and label termination, built in the
gable of the building, probably of late fifteenth-century date.
A little higher up the street is a projecting gabled house, the front
of which is boarded up ; behind these boards the old timbers remain,
while stone corbels below show that the gable was once supported on
brackets.

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