12, ORIEL STREET
12, ORIEL STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047173
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 12, ORIEL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12, ORIEL STREET
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2002-04-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/06835/09
- Rights:
- © Miss Jennie Anderson. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047173
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 12, ORIEL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, ORIEL 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:
- 12, ORIEL 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 51591 06165
Details
ORIEL STREET 1. 1485 (West Side) No 12 SP 5106 SE 9/379 12.1.54. II* GV 2. House. RCHM 93. Consists of a house rebuilt in early Cl8 on the street with an early C17 "passage" type house forming an wing at the back. (1) The house fronting the street may have been built as two tenements and has a central stack. It consists of 3-storeyed stuccoed timber-framed with cellars and 2 gables. The latter have moulded bargeboards and a casement light in each. In the ground floor are two sash windows and a plain door-frame with a rectangular fanlight. In the lst and 2nd floors are 2 3-light sash windows all with glazing bars. (2) The back wing, on the South-West, is 2-storeyed rubble with 3 timber-framed gables and an overhang at the 1st floor on the North side. At the East end of the North elevation is a splayed bay with ancient casement windows; above it and continued up through the 1st and 2nd floors is a rectangular bay. Further to the West there is a blocked 2-light stone mullioned window in the 1st floor. Interior: RCHM page 168a. Includes in South-West wing an original stone fireplace. For plans sections, elevations and perspective drawings see Antiq. Jnl. XXVII (l947) Figures 12 and 13. History. For leases and tenants, Oxford History Society 85 (1926), 200-204.
Nos 1 to 7 (consec) (East part) Oriel Square with Nos 1 to 10 (consec) and No 12 Oriel Street from a group.
Listing NGR: SP5159106165
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245712
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 168
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, Vol. 85, (1926), 200-204
Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London in Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Vol. 27, (1947)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 20-Jun-2026 at 06:02:02.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.