The Judges Lodging
THE JUDGES LODGING, 16, ST GILES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047136
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Judges Lodging
- Statutory Address:
- THE JUDGES LODGING, 16, ST GILES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047136
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Judges Lodging
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE JUDGES LODGING, 16, ST GILES STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE JUDGES LODGING, 16, ST GILES STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 51212 06821
Details
ST GILES' STREET 1. 1485 (East Side) No 16 (The Judge's Lodging) SP 5106 NW 5/550 12.1.54. II* GV 2. RCHM 183. Built in 1702. 2-storeyed ashlar (refaced in 1932) with cellars and rusticated quoins. Moulded cornice, pedimented centrepiece and a stone slate roof in which are 4 gabled attic dormers. Stone stacks. The North part was altered Cl8-Cl9, when the 2 windows in the 1st floor were lengthened, the front doorway also seems to have been altered. There are 7 sash windows with glazing bars in moulded frames, those in the ground floor having cornices. The back is similar and has a stone doorway with an ornamented shell hood on scrolled brackets. On the roof is an inscription "Thomas Rowney, Esq, Elizabeth his wife, Anno 1702". At the side on South,is a carriageway. Interior. RCHM p 179 a. Includes contemporary panelling, 2 staircases and a plaster ceiling. The whole much altered during recent restoration.
Nos 1, 11 to 17 (consec), 19, 2Q, Black Hall, Part of Queen Elizabeth House and Nos 22 and 23 form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5121606818
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245817
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 179
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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