Holloways Almshouses
Holloways Almshouses, 2-10, Station Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213538
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Holloways Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- Holloways Almshouses, 2-10, Station Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213538
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Holloways Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- Holloways Almshouses, 2-10, Station 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.
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:
- Holloways Almshouses, 2-10, Station Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witney
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3564509281
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement on 29 July 2025 to correct details in the description, update the source and reformat the text to current standards
SP3509S
11/212
WITNEY
STATION ROAD (West side)
Holloways Almshouses, Nos.2 to 10 (even)
(Formerly listed as Holloways Almshouses (Nos.2-12) (even))
06/02/70
GV
II
Almshouses. Founded 1724 (plaque reset in gable end): rebuilt 1868 by William Wilkinson. Coursed limestone rubble; stone-coped gabled stone slate roof; large stone ridge and end stacks. Six-unit plan. One storey and attic; six-window range. C20 doors set in three Gothic-style pointed doorways with bracketed hoods above. Two-light stone-mullioned windows, which on first floor are set in stone-coped gables with finials and have pointed-arched hood moulds. Hipped one-storey service ranges to rear.
Interior not inspected.
Founded by John Holloway, Clothier, d,1724, to house "aged unmarried women".
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: North and West, p554).
Listing NGR: SP3564509281
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398160
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sherwood, J, Brooks, A, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: North and West , (2017), 554
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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