2, HOLYWELL STREET
2, HOLYWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186750
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 2, HOLYWELL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, HOLYWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186750
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 2, HOLYWELL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, HOLYWELL 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:
- 2, HOLYWELL 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 51901 06508
Details
HOLYWELL STREET 1. 1485 (North Side) No 2 SP 5106 NE 6/223 12.1.54. II GV 2. House. RCHM 219. Originally early C17, Partly re-modelled in C18. 3-storeyed timber-framing on an ashlar base with cellars, the windows of which are above the street level. These are modern brick stacks and a Welsh slate roof. On the south elevation is an overhang at the 1st and 2nd floors. On the ground floor are 2 projecting and splayed stone bay windows with modern stone 4-light moulded mullioned frames with sashes. The front door is in a plain moulded stone frame and there are 5 stone steps up to it. Over the doorway, the overhang of the 1st floor (which is roughcast) is supported on 2 modern wooden scrolled brackets, on the face of each of which is a shield, that on the west bearing 3 chevrons (? for Merton College), that on the east being blank; there are similar but ancient brackets (with blank shields) at the east and west ends of the house at this level. The 2 windows of the 1st floor each project on 3 wooden scrolled and enriched consoles on which are blank wooden shields; each window has 2 C18 sashes to the front and 1 small sash on each return. The 2nd floor has 5 sash windows (the 2 outside having double sashes) and the whole of this floor is boxed-out and roughcast and is a C18 (? late C17) addition or remodelling. To the west is a single-storeyed stuccoed block on cellars with an attic dormer in a modern red tile roof; in the ground floor is a 3-light stone-framed sash window, the whole being in a shallow recess with a segmental head. Interior. RCHM p 182a. Includes a C18 fireplace and some C18 panelling. For a drawing the exterior made in 1822 by J C Buckler, see Bodl M S Don a. 3 II, 31.
All the listed buildings on the North Side form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5190106508
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245546
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 182
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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