42 AND 43, HIGH STREET
42 AND 43, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047281
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 42 AND 43, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 42 AND 43, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047281
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 42 AND 43, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42 AND 43, 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:
- 42 AND 43, 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 51855 06268
Details
HIGH STREET 1. 1485 (North Side) Nos 42 & 43 SP 5106 SE 9/414 12.1.54. jl2 & 4 5 II GV 2. House and shops. 1 building. RCHM 61. Originally C16-17 altered in early C18 and possibly since. 3-storeyed stuccoed timber-framing on a brick and stone base with cellars, a 2-gabled attic floor, Welsh slate roof and brick stacks. The 2nd and 3rd floors project slightly and have a moulded and dentilled cornice between them. The 2 gables have moulded and enriched bargeboards and in each is a small sash window. Each floor has a C18 bay window in which are double C18 sashes in moulded frames. In the central passage-way are an outer and an inner C16-17 moulded wood doorframe with a 4-centred head, stop chamfers and moulded spandrels and in each of which is carved a rose on the outer frame and a blank shield on the inner one. There are 2 moulded ceiling beams in the passage way. Modern shopfront and central doorway to passage through. History. Once known as Chapel Hall Oxford History Society LXVI (1914). 3l2-l4, for leases and tenants 1598-1849 and LXIX (1916) 339.
All the listed buildings on the North side form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5185206270
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245489
- 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), 312-314
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, Vol. 69, (1916), 339
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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