20, HOLYWELL STREET
20, HOLYWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369396
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 20, HOLYWELL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 20, HOLYWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369396
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 20, HOLYWELL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, 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:
- 20, 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 51762 06532
Details
HOLYWELL STREET 1. 1485 (North Side) No 20 SP 5106 NE 6/208 12.1.54. II GV 2. House. RCHM 206. Early C17, refashioned in C18. 3-storeyed cement-rendered timber-framed front on a stone base. The South front has a moulded cornice at the 1st floor, 3 hipped gables in a Welsh slate roof with modern red brick stacks. The ground floor has 2 double C18 sash windows in modern wood frames, 1 on either side of the front doorway which has 2 steps up to it, a moulded wood frame and a rectangular fanlight. The 1st and 2nd floors have similar double sash windows. On the West is a passageway and in the West wall of the house on the ground floor is some original early chamfered wood partitioning. The West side of the passageway is of rubble and has a gable end above it. In September 1949 the South front was stripped and refaced with grey cement rendering on expanding metal laid on the timber-framing. Behind the old plastered front were found at each end of the 2nd floor the original C17 2-light wood mullioned window frames which had been left undisturbed by the Cl8 frontage; these were again covered over. Interior: RCHM p 181 a. Includes an early C17 staircase, plastered ceilings, overmantel and panelling and 2 C18 moulded stone fireplaces and some C18 panelling.
All the listed buildings on the North Side form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5176206532
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245563
- 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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