90, High Street

90, High Street, Oxford

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1369387
Date first listed:: 12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: 90, High Street
Statutory Address:: 90, High Street, Oxford

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1369387
Date first listed:: 12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: 90, High Street
Statutory Address 1:: 90, High Street, Oxford

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 90, High Street, Oxford

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 51676 06250

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 November 2024 to reformat the text to current standards

SP 5106 SE 9/360

HIGH STREET (south side) No 90

12.1.54

GV II House and shop (RCHM 64). Early C17 and refronted in C18-C19. Four-storeyed, stucccoed, timber framing with cellars, a moulded eaves cornice, parapet, Welsh slate roof and brick stacks. Carried up through the upper floors are two bay windows with three-light sash windows. On the ground floor on each side of the shop is a door in a reeded frame flanked by an engaged Doric column. Six-panel doors in a pair. Late C19 shop. Roof not visible.

Interior:(RCHM p 163 b) Includes a blocked original doorway and a partly renewed staircase; a plaster ceiling with moulded ornamented beams; original panelling, fireplaces and overmantels. At the back is an addition (now a lecture room of University College) built by James Adam, a cabinet maker, circa 1812; it has two Venetian windows.

History: built in 1612 by John Williams apothecary and refronted by James Adam, probably early in C19. In 1905 it was acquired by University College of which it is now part. Here lodged the mother of John Ruskin when he was at Christ Church, 1836-40.

All the listed buildings on the south side form a group.

Listing NGR: SP5167406247

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Legacy System number:: 245521
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 163

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.