17, MERTON STREET
17, MERTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369398
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 17, MERTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 17, MERTON STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369398
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 17, MERTON STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, MERTON 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:
- 17, MERTON 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 51874 06153
Details
MERTON STREET 1. 1485 (North Side) No 17 SP 5106 SE 9/470 12.1.54. II GV 2. House. RCHM 85. Probably originally C17 and altered in C18. 2-storeyed rubble with cellars and a later 3rd storey with a cement-faced timber-framing which overhangs. There are stone bands at the 1st and 2nd floors, a Welsh slate roof and brick stacks. The ground floor has a modern sash window and a plain front doorway with a small hood. In the 1st floor is a modern bay window of 4 lights in a wood frame with a moulded entablature; on each side of this bay is a single light sash window. The top over-hanging floor has 3 sash windows in moulded wood frames. All the windows except those on the ground floor have glazing bars. (For lease and tenants see Oxf Hist Soc LXVI, 237).
Nos l3 to 18 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5187306154
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245658
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, Vol. 66, (1914), 237
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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