Bartlemas House

BARTLEMAS HOUSE, COWLEY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1047331
Date first listed:
12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:
Bartlemas House
Statutory Address:
BARTLEMAS HOUSE, COWLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1047331
Date first listed:
12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:
Bartlemas House
Statutory Address 1:
BARTLEMAS HOUSE, COWLEY ROAD

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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BARTLEMAS HOUSE, COWLEY ROAD

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 53468 05502

Details

1. COWLEY ROAD 1485 (North-East Side) Bartlemas House SP 5305 20/84 12.1.54. II* 2. To the north of St Bartholomew's Chapel. RCHM 252. Part of St Bartholomew's Hospital, rebuilt by Oriel College in 1649. 2-storeyed rubble in a long rectangular plan originally giving 4 tenements, now one house, facing south. Stone slate roof and 2 moulded stone end stacks with moulded stone shafts. At the back are two projecting stone stacks with moulded stone shafts. The south elevation has two plain stone doorways with 4-centred heads and 4- light partly renewed stone mullioned windows. The elevation has two similar doorways and single light windows. In the east elevation are some stone mullioned windows. Interior. RCHM page 184b. Includes some stone fireplaces and some original and some modern (1922) wood doorframes having initials and dates in the spandrels, for the College Provosts and Fellows, two being "I.S.P." for John Saunders, Provost, 1644-53. The roof timbers appear to be mostly renewed.

Listing NGR: SP5346505504

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
245418
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 184

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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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