37 AND 38, HIGH STREET
37 AND 38, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116054
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 37 AND 38, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 37 AND 38, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116054
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 37 AND 38, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37 AND 38, 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:
- 37 AND 38, 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 51756 06285
Details
HIGH STREET 1. 1485 (North Side) Nos 37 & 38 SP 5106 SE 9/354 12.1.54. II GV 2. House and modern shop, 1 building. RCHM 59. C16-17. 2-storeyed stuccoed timber-framing with 2 gabled dormers, a new stone slate roof and brick stacks. The lst floor has 2 3-sided bay windows with modem C18 style sashes. The gabled dormer windows are modem with 5-light casements and are supported on ancient carved and enriched wooden brackets with Tudor-style blank shields thereon. The moulded wood lintel of the West gabled dormer window is ancient. Interior. RCHM page 163a. Includes C18 panelling and doors. In the ground floor of No 38 are plastered beams. In the wing at the back is a fireplace and a plastered and ornamented beam. History. For leases and tenants 1569 to 1865, see Oxford History. Society LXVI (1914), 276, 289-90; LXIX (1916) 339, 351. Certain building work was going on here in 1664 when it was The Inn. For plan in circa 1725, see 1b. LXVI, Plan VIII.
All the listed buildings on the North Side form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5175406286
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245487
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 163
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, (1914), 276
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, (1914), 289-290
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, (1916), 339
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, (1916), 351
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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