1 AND 2, BREWER STREET
1 AND 2, BREWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369350
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, BREWER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, BREWER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369350
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, BREWER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, BREWER 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:
- 1 AND 2, BREWER 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 51368 05931
Details
BREWER STREET 1. 1485 (South Side) Nos 1 & 2 SP 5105 NW 12/585 12.1.54. II 2. House. 2 buildings. The main East block was built in 1596 and the West block was built by Oliver Smith, probably early in C17 and has since been rebuilt. There is an early C18 addition on the East and there are modern additions, including the upper part of the West block. On the North elevation , the East block is 2-storeyed ashlar with cellars and attics, a stone slate roof, and a moulded stone cornice with parapet above. Stone stacks. Some original 2-light "Tudor" windows with square labels and a continuous moulding running along the front. The C18 wood doorframe has a bracketed hood with a dentilled cornice. The West block is a rebuilt 3-storeyed stuccoed front on a stone base with a machine-tile roof and brick stacks; modern 3-light casement windows. There is a projecting wing at the back on the South. Interior:- RCHM p 176a. Includes original stone fireplaces, an early C17 plastered ceiling in the West block and C18 panelling. (See Oxf Preserv Trust Rept. 1936-7, p 53 and Oxf Hist Soc XXXIX, 44).
Listing NGR: SP5137605924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245341
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 176
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, Vol. 39, (), 44
Oxford Presery Trust Report in Oxford Presery Trust Report, (1936-7), 33
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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