25 Holywell Street
25, Holywell Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047226
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 25 Holywell Street
- Statutory Address:
- 25, Holywell Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047226
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 25 Holywell Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 25, Holywell 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:
- 25, Holywell 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 51733 06532
Details
SP 5106 NE
6/205
HOLYWELL STREET (North Side)
No 25
12.1.54.
GV
II
House. RCHM 204. Probably originally C17 but has been altered. Three storeyed stuccoed timber-framing on a stone plinth with cellars, a moulded eaves cornice and a parapet. There is an overhang at the first floor with a moulded cornice. The ground floor has two three-light windows, one with casements, the other with sashes. The front doorway has a moulded wood frame with a scroll bracketed hood. The first and second floors have two bay windows with double sashes with glazing bars in moulded wood frames. Connected with this house on the north is a small C16-C17 two storeyed rubble house with modern brick coping and a Welsh slate roof in which is a dormer with a two-light casement window; it has two brick stacks; the ground floor facing north has a four-light stone-framed moulded mullioned and transomed window, to the east of which is a recessed opening with a four-centred head (probably a blocked doorway), over this is a square label; in the first floor, facing north, is a four-light stone mullioned and transomed window; on the roughcast west gable end is a projecting stack; the gable on the north east is patched in brick and has a three-light stone mullioned window in it; this building is included in the grading II.
Interior: RCHM p 181 a. The house on the north includes some C17 panelling, doors and a fireplace.
All the listed buildings on the north side form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5172606533
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245566
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 181
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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