32, HOLYWELL STREET
32, HOLYWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047230
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 32, HOLYWELL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 32, HOLYWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047230
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 32, HOLYWELL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 32, 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:
- 32, 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 51674 06537
Details
HOLYWELL STREET 1. 1485 (North Side) No 32 SP 5106 NE 6/197 12.1.54. II GV 2. House. RCHM 199. A Cl7 house with an early C19 front of 5-storeyed ashlar on a stone plinth, a moulded eaves cornice, small parapet and brick stacks. On the East is a coachway. The ground floor has 3 modern sash windows in plain reveals with stone cills and there is a band at the 1st floor. The front doorway has a stone moulded frame with flat pilasters and a moulded entablature with an ornament of 2 roses over the caps. The 1st floor has 5 modern sash windows in plain reveals with stone cills. The 2nd floor has the same but the centre window is blind. On the North at the back the upper storey is plastered and has a Venetian window facing North in the ground floor which is of ashlar. Further North the wing is partly C17 timber-framed and has an overhang on the East timber-framed and has 3 ancient gables and modern sash windows. Interior: RCHM p 180 b. Includes some reset panelling of circa 1600 and an early C18 fireplace.
All the listed buildings on the North Side form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5167406537
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245573
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 180
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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