Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ed and adapted for shopsand dwellings, and unfortunately thoroughly modernised at the sametime. The principal one of these inns was known as the SherborneArms, and prior to that it was called The Lamb. It is situated onthe main road in the centre of the town, and is the original GreatHouse given by William Dutton in 1619, together with ^200, for theuse of the poor. The house before it was converted into an inn wasused as a store for wool and cloth, and previous to that it was let piece-meal to seventeen tenants, who occup
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ed and adapted for shopsand dwellings, and unfortunately thoroughly modernised at the sametime. The principal one of these inns was known as the SherborneArms, and prior to that it was called The Lamb. It is situated onthe main road in the centre of the town, and is the original GreatHouse given by William Dutton in 1619, together with ^200, for theuse of the poor. The house before it was converted into an inn wasused 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 vacatingif a clothier or weaver in fustians applied. The front of the house hasbeen much altered ; an archway is still existing, in the spandrel ofwhich are the remains of what appear to have been a Tudor rose. Inthe side wall facing the lane is a long range of old buildings, in which isa two-light window of Tudor form, terminating at the end with a gableof quite mediaeval outline, having buttresses of fifteenth - century THE GREEN, 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 wouldappear 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 sometimber framing and the remains of what seems to have been a finestone chimney. Much of the old stabling has been pulled down. Opposite the Great House are two old Cotswold houses, withstone-mullioned windows. Near by is the Royal Oak, probably of early eighteenth-centurydate, which possesses a panelled room and carved oak stair, both ofthe usual eighteenth-century type. Just beyond this, up the Burford Street, in a side-walk, is a portionof the head of a cusped window and label termination, built in thegable of the building, probably of
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