3, HOLYWELL STREET
3, HOLYWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369392
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 3, HOLYWELL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 3, HOLYWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369392
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 3, HOLYWELL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, 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:
- 3, 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 51883 06511
Details
HOLYWELL STREET 1. 1485 (North Side) No 3 SP 5106 NE 6/222 12.1.54. II GV 2. House. RCHM 218. Early C17 2-storeyed ashlar restored 1972 with cellars and 4 gabled timber-framed dormers in a modern red tile roof. The stacks have cement- faced bases and brick shafts. The South elevation is of stone. The ground floor has 2 3-light stone mullioned windows on the East and on the West of the front door is a projecting splayed bay of 3 stone mullioned lights to the front and one on each return. To the West of this bay is a 2-light stone mullioned window; all these windows have the remains of square labels. The bay is carried up to the 1st floor in which are also 2 3-light and 2 2-light stone mullioned windows and above is a hollow moulded string running the width of the house. The front door-frame is of stone with moulded stop-chamfered jambs and sunk spandrels in a 4-centred arch in a square head, over which is a good early C18 hood with a dentilled moulded cornice on carved and enriched wooden brackets. There is an ancient oak nail-studded door. In the 4 gables are C18 sash windows. On the North elevation at the back are early C18 and modern additions. Interior; RCHM p 182 a. Includes C18 panelling, fireplaces and staircase and some early C17 panelling. The roof timbers are exposed.
All the listed buildings on the North Side form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5188306511
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245547
- 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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