Beam Hall, With Number 3
BEAM HALL, WITH NUMBER 3, MERTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1369414
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Beam Hall, With Number 3
- Statutory Address:
- BEAM HALL, WITH NUMBER 3, MERTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1369414
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Beam Hall, With Number 3
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEAM HALL, WITH NUMBER 3, 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:
- BEAM HALL, WITH NUMBER 3, 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 51698 06119
Details
MERTON STREET 1. 1485 (North Side) Beam Hall, with No 3 (Formerly listed as Beam Hall) SP 5106 SE 9/465 12.1.54. II* GV 2. RCHM 79. Built in 2 sections, that on the East being built as a Hall, in C15 and that on the West about 1600; the -latter was altered in Cl8 and in 1885. The East range. The south front is recessed from the West range by about 3 ft and is of lower height. 2-storeyed pilastered rubble with cellars and a stone slate roof in which 3 Cl7 gabled attic dormers, the two on the East being larger than that on the West; the East one has moulded barge-boards and in the West is a 3-light casement window in a modern stone frame. In the ground floor are 2 original 2-light stone caveto-moulded mullioned windows with square heads, and 1 small window in a moulded stone frame. At the west end in the 1st floor, which was inserted probably about 1600, is a 3-light stone mullioned window in a moulded frame. The West range is of 2 storeys with cellars and 4 gables in which are attics. The front was restored in 1885 by sir T G Jackson and is now cement-faced with imitation masonry joints. There is a continuous moulded string over the ground and 1st floors and a moulded cornice below the gables. The ground floor has 2 3-light stone mullioned windows and 2 similar but larger windows with sashes, all with square moulded labels. In the lst floor are 1 3-light and 2 2-light stone mullioned windows with a projecting bay of 3 lights with sashes. The 4 windows in the 4 gables have 3-light casements. There is a moulded flat wooden bracketed hood to the doorway. On the East is a stone-based stack with a modern brick shaft and the roof is of modern tiles. Interior. RCHM p 166 b. Includes in the East block the original roof timbers, and early Cl7 staircase, a C17 fireplace and some C16-17 panelling. For drawing of exterior by J C Buckler in 182l, see MS Bodl Don A 3 1 52. Major alterations 1964.
Beam Hall and Nos 3, 4A and 5 from a group with New Block, Corpus Christ College and Oriel College.
Listing NGR: SP5169806120
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245648
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 166
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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