A burgage market town.

Narrow frontages, deep holdings. Buildings change; the long plots endure.

DioramaIllustratedClayLinework

Preparing your burgage town…

PerspectiveIsometricPlanStreet end

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Time & place

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CotswoldsLimestone, stone slates and later additionsEast AngliaTimber, coloured plaster, brick and clay tilesPennine townsGritstone, sandstone and slate

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Medieval · c.1400Early modern · c.1700Victorian · c.1900Today

Cotswolds · Today

An inherited town: older street fronts, altered rear wings, workshops, garden rooms and private gardens.

Illustrative settings: local traditions overlap, and each period retains buildings from earlier times.

Street & plots

Plots on each side

Typical frontagem

Burgage plot depthm

Market street widthm

20 burgage plots · 62.0 m of high street

Frontages vary slightly, while the long boundaries preserve the grain of the town. Three-metre back lanes connect around both ends.

Buildings & backland

Front building depthm

Typical eaves heightm

Rear buildingsConnected ranges, small courts and detached workshops

Gardens & orchardsVegetable beds and fruit trees behind the yards

Market dayAn open market hall and striped market stalls

Read the long plot

RoofsTurn off to expose the buildings and passageways

Trace the plotsOchre lines reveal each narrow, deep holding

Choose Plan to see the whole pattern: market street → front building → rear ranges and courts → garden → back lane. A 1.15 m passage keeps each holding connected from front to back.

Cotswolds · Today

Concept study. Dimensions are indicative, not construction drawings.

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