102 AND 103, HIGH STREET, 1 AND 2, ORIEL STREET

1 AND 2, ORIEL STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1047251
Date first listed:
12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:
102 AND 103, HIGH STREET, 1 AND 2, ORIEL STREET
Statutory Address:
1 AND 2, ORIEL STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1047251
Date first listed:
12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:
102 AND 103, HIGH STREET, 1 AND 2, ORIEL STREET
Statutory Address 1:
1 AND 2, ORIEL STREET
Statutory Address 2:
102 AND 103, HIGH STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
1 AND 2, ORIEL STREET
Statutory Address:
102 AND 103, 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 51588 06216

Details

HIGH STREET 1. 1485 (South Side) Nos 102 & 103 SP 5106 SE 9/371 12.1.54. II GV 2. (With Nos 1 and 2 ORIEL STREET). House and shop. Probably one building. RCHM 66. Built between 1713 and 1738 by William Ives, apothecary, but has been altered. 3 or 4-storeyed stuccoed timber-framing with cellars. North elevation. East range is of 3 storeys and has in the lst floor a (possibly altered) 3-light sash window 2 Corinthian pilasters and a moulded entablature. The 2nd floor has a 3-light sash window in a moulded frame above which is a pediment, the cornice of which is bracketed. The West range iO of 4 storeys;in the lst and 2nd floors is a 3-light sash window in a moulded frame with an architrave; there is a bold projecting modillioned eaves cornice above which is a wood balcony; the top floor has two sash windows. The East elevation (Nos 1 and 2 Oriel Street) is 3-storeyed stuccoed timber-framing. In the lst floor are 2 sash windows with cornices, 2 plain sash windows and a 3-light sash window, all of which appear to be Cl8. There is a modern shop front to the ground floor. History. For leases and tenants and the builder, see Oxford History Society. 85 (1926), 209-lO.

All listed bui1dings on the South Side form a group.

Listing NGR: SP5158806216

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Legacy System number:
245525
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, Vol. 85, (1926), 209-210

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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