68, HOLYWELL STREET
68, HOLYWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047241
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 68, HOLYWELL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 68, HOLYWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047241
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 68, HOLYWELL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 68, 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:
- 68, 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 51723 06516
Details
HOLYWELL STREET 1. 1485 WrF+hS (South Side) No 68 (Formerly listed as No 68 and Tower Cottage) SP 5106 NE 6/243 12.1.54. SP 5106 NE 6/244 II GV 2. Formerly listed as No 68. House. RCHM 223. Originally Cl7 but has been remodelled. 3-storeyed roughcast timber-framing on a stone base with cellars, an overhang at the 1st floor, moulded wood band at the 2nd floor, a moulded wood eaves cornice and a parapet. The ground floor has a plain doorway and 2 casement windows in wood frames with a continuous moulded cornice above them. In the lst floor are 2 Cl9 sash windows in flush wood frames and in the 2nd floor are 3 ancient 2-light wood-framed casement windows. Interior: RCHM p 182 a. Includes some early Cl8 panelling and fireplaces. For plans, section and elevations see Figure 16 and page 140. Antiq. Jnl. 27 (1947). Formerly listed as Tower Cottage. House RCHM 222. C17 and altered in C18-19. 3-storeyed timber framing on a stone base with cellars. There is a moulded eaves cornice, parapet, Welsh slate roof and brick stacks. The ground floor has 3 Cl8-19 sash windows in wood frames with bracketed cills; there is no front doorway. In the 1st floor are 3 similar windows with moulded cornices and in the 3rd floor are 3 windows similar to those in the ground floor but smaller.
All the listed on the South Side form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5173206513
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245592
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 182
Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London in Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Vol. 27, (1947), 140
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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