Numbers 15 and 16 and Attached Walls
NUMBERS 15 AND 16 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 15 AND 16, BLACKHALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375655
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 15 and 16 and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 15 AND 16 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 15 AND 16, BLACKHALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375655
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 15 and 16 and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 15 AND 16 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 15 AND 16, BLACKHALL ROAD
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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:
- NUMBERS 15 AND 16 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 15 AND 16, BLACKHALL ROAD
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 51276 06870
Details
SP 5106 NW OXFORD BLACKHALL ROAD
(West side)
612/5/10038 Nos. 15 and 16 (Consecutive)
and attached walls
GV II
Two houses. 1963 by the Architects Co-Partnership (Michael Powers) for St John's College. Concrete block with white facing bricks, with concrete ring beams. Internal timber construction to first floor and roof. Flat roofs with projecting concrete tank housings. Nos. 15 and 16 are larger in plan than No. 17, by the same architects, semi-detached and set in echelon, with mirrored plans.
All facades show concrete ring beams as inset banding in brickwork, projecting to form hood to front door and at roof level projecting to form rainwater hoppers. Houses stand behind earlier stone wall on street and earlier stone garden wall extending from house. On entrance front, principal windows ranged over each other to form continuous vertical bands, with narrow horizontal windows extended to corners on first floor. Rear elevations have similar configuration. A single storey extension was added to no 16 in 1973 to a design by Cluttons, which is sympathetic to the design of the main building.
Interiors. No 15 has plastered ceiling, no 16 has pine-boarded ceilings. Both have frameless doors and some fitted pine units between dining room and kitchen and as linen cupboards and dressing tables. Black quarry tile floors throughout ground floor, pine floors to first floor. Exposed brick in hallways with timber ladder stair rising in curved well.
A carefully detailed group of Fellows' houses for St John's College, Oxford. They are rare domestic works by this leading practice of the post-war period. The grey brick and concrete are a Brutalist version of the traditional stone colouring of Oxford, tactfully screened from the street.
Source (Nikolaus Pevsner and Jennifer Sherwood: Buildings of England, Oxfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1974-: 315; Penelope Whiting: New Houses: 1964-: 40-47)
Listing NGR: SP5126806877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469630
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 315
Whiting, P, New Houses, (1964), 40-47
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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