40, ST GILES STREET
40, ST GILES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1068575
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 40, ST GILES STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 40, ST GILES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1068575
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 40, ST GILES STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40, ST GILES 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:
- 40, ST GILES 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 51127 06816
Details
ST GILES' STREET 1. 1485 (West Side) No 40 SP 5l06 NW 5/511 12.1.54. 1I* GV 2. House. RCHM 181. The walls are of rubble and brick and timber framing. The main part of the house on the South East is C16-C17 with a C18 wing on the North East. At the back on the South West is an extension, probably late Cl7. There are later additions. East Elevation. 2-storeyed stuccoed ground floor with a roughcast 1st floor; it has a 3-sided projecting 2-storeyed bay in the centre which is flanked by a gable. The South gable is tile hung and the North one roughcast. The bay has in the ground floor an early C19 reeded window frame with paterae and all the sash windows appear to be of this date. The elevation between the gables and over the bay has a cornice and parapet. There is an early C19 rustic trellis porch with a lead hood. Extending eastwards on the North is a one-storey stone C18 wing with a flat roof and 2 casement windows. Interior: RCHM page 178b. Includes stone fireplaces and moulded and plastered ceiling beams.
Nos 31 to 46 (consec) and Nos 49 to 56 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5112706816
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245837
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 178
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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