29 AND 29A, HOLYWELL STREET
29 AND 29A, HOLYWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369378
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 29 AND 29A, HOLYWELL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 29 AND 29A, HOLYWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369378
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 29 AND 29A, HOLYWELL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 29 AND 29A, 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:
- 29 AND 29A, 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 51700 06536
Details
HOLYWELL STREET 1. 1485 (North Side) Nos 29 & 29A (Formerly listed as No 29) SP 5106 NE 6/200 12.1.54. II GV 2. House. RCHM 202. Early C17 with C18 additions and refronted probably in C18-C19. 3-storeyed, rubble in the cellars and attics in gables. The attic floor is of stone and the rest is covered with a late stucco. The West side is of rubble and at the back on the West is a massive stack with a modern red brick shaft. At the 1st and 2nd floors is a moulded stone course. The ground floor has a dripmould and a C18 3-light bay window in a reeded wood frame and this bay is carried up through the 1st and 2nd floors. The doorway has a reeded wood frame with a rectangular fanlight over which, and to the East, of the bay window are, in the 1st and 2nd floors, a restored 2-light stone-framed casement window. In the gable is a 3-light stone-framed window with a dripmould. Interior: Includes a C17 staircase and 3 contemporary fireplaces.
All the listed buildings on the North Side form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5170006536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245570
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 181
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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