1, SOUTH PARKS ROAD
1, SOUTH PARKS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391088
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 1, SOUTH PARKS ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 1, SOUTH PARKS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391088
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 1, SOUTH PARKS ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, SOUTH PARKS ROAD
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:
- 1, SOUTH PARKS 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 51578 06847
Details
612/0/10099 SOUTH PARKS ROAD 15-SEP-04 1
GV II House, now University of Oxford offices. 1868-9. By William Wilkinson. For John C. Wilson. Buff brick with red brick dressings and plain-tile roof with various elaborate ridge and end stacks. High Victorian style with string courses and mostly with stone mullion windows with sashes. Central entrance plan. 2 storeys and attic. Front has a pictureque outline with a central range with roof descending lower and with a gabled cross-wing either side. A 5-window range in all across the front at 1st floor. Central range has an elaborate gabled wooden porch and windows either side. 3 windows over. 2 gabled dormers on the long roof slope above. Cross wing to left has canted bay with 2-light window above and 3-light in attic. Right gable has 3-light with 2-light over and 3-light in attic. Single-storey gabled service wing projects forward on right and there is a projection culminating in a pyramidal roof with finial behind this wing. A further gable and sashes behind. Left side includes a side stack which slightly projects all the way up the wall. Rear is similar with a 4-gabled front with mainly 2- and 3-light stone mullion windows with sashes. INTERIOR. Good original joinery survives, including the staircase, and also stone fireplaces. This is a finely-detailed example of a suburban villa of the period by a well-known architect. The house also forms part of a good group of historic buildings including No.2, adjacent (q.v.), and Rhodes House (q.v.) opposite.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491229
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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