Black Hall
BLACK HALL, ST GILES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369455
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Black Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BLACK HALL, ST GILES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369455
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Black Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACK HALL, ST GILES 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:
- BLACK HALL, ST GILES 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 51199 06880
Details
ST GILES' STREET 1. 1485 (East Side) Black Hall SP 5106 NW 5/532 12.1.54. II GV 2. RCHM 184. Early C17 house remodelled C17-18 and restored and a North wing added in early C19 by Joseph Parker. The West elevation is 3-storeyed ashlar with a central bay and an attic floor in a gable. In the bay, the ground floor has a stone window of 4 mullioned lights with single return lights, the 1st floor a 3-light sash window and in the 2nd floor is a Venetian-style centre light with flanking mullioned lights over this window is a lead pent roof. There are moulded strings at 1st and 2nd floors and below the attic floor. The stone mullioned attic window is of 3 lights with a moulded cornice. The later North wing is of 2-storeyed ashlar with a moulded string at the lst floor and a parapet; in the ground floor is a 4-centred headed stone doorway and sash windows; in the 1st floor are 2 sash windows with moulded architraves and a continuous string. The South elevation has a modillioned eaves cornice and late Cl7 mullioned and transomed wood-framed windows; there is a columned late C18 doorway. The East elevation has a Cl8-19 bay window. Interior. RCHM p 17 a. Includes Cl7-C18 staircase and a Cl7 fireplace. History. See Wood's Life (0xf Hist Soc) XIX 279, XXI 153; Wood's City (OHS) XV 354, 356-7, 627; XVII 69; and "Monthly Rev British Council", March 1948 p 259; and Gardner's Gazetteer, Oxon (1852) p 287.
Nos 1, 11 to 17 (consec), l9, 20, Black Hall, Part of Queen Elizabeth House and Nos 22 and 23 form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5119906880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245822
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 17
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, Vol. 19, (), 279
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, Vol. 19, (), 153
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, Vol. 19, (), 354
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, Vol. 19, (), 356-357
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, Vol. 19, (), 627
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, Vol. 19, (), 69
Gardners Gazetteer and Directory of Oxfordshire in Gardners Gazetteer and Directory of Oxfordshire, (1852), 287
British Council Monthly Review in March, (1948), 259
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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