86 AND 87, HIGH STREET
86 AND 87, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047248
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 86 AND 87, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 86 AND 87, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047248
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 86 AND 87, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 86 AND 87, HIGH 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:
- 86 AND 87, HIGH 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 51812 06244
Details
HIGH STREET 1. 1485 (South Side) Nos 86 &87 SP 5106 SE 9/418 12.1.54. II* GV 2. House and shop, 1 building. RCHM 63. Early C17 with a long wing at the back on South East. 3-storeyed roughcast timber-framinwith cellars and an early Cl9 (after 1814) stone Doric ground floor front with 7 engaged columns. There is an overhang at the 2nd floor, a moulded eaves cornice and a parapet. The lst floor has 3 sash windows in plain frames and the 2nd floor has similar but smaller windows. At the back are also Cl9 extensions; the West side of the early wing projects and has 3 gabled dormers. Interior. RCHM p 163 b. Includes on the ground floor good original ornamented plastered ceiling beams and panelling and some early Cl8 panelling and a fireplace. The upper floors have recently (1949) been altered and adapted as rooms for University College; there are here some original plastered and ornamented ceiling beams, panelling and stone fireplaces and an early cl8 staircase.History:- For leases and tenants 1565-1884 see Oxf Hist Soc LVI (1914) 167-9 and Antiq Jnl XXVII (1947), 139. Once the site of Boster Hall and Saracen's Head.
All the listed buildings on the South Side form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5181206244
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245520
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 163
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, Vol. 66, (1914), 167-169
Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London in Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Vol. 27, (1947), 139
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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