2, SOUTH PARKS ROAD
2, SOUTH PARKS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391089
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 2, SOUTH PARKS ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 2, SOUTH PARKS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391089
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 2, SOUTH PARKS ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, 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:
- 2, 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 51606 06861
Details
612/0/10106 SOUTH PARKS ROAD 15-SEP-04 2
GV II House, now University of Oxford offices. 1865-6. By William Wilkinson. For George Rolleston. Brick in 3 colours with brick dressings, string course and eaves cornice. Plain tile hipped and gabled roofs with terracotta flashings and various elaborate ridge stacks. High Victorian style with Gothic arched relieving arches of various types over segmental or flat brick stone arches to sash windows. 2 storeys and attic. Front has picturesques outline with scattered fenestration, the element on the left projecting forward. Entrance is on right end in a gable end formed as a frontespiece with a window to left of entrance and 2 windows over. Half-timbering in gable apex. To right is a square projecting bay with paired sash and pentice roof. The rear is a long carefully-composed front, its 3 elements receding slightly to right. It includes gables and half-hipped gables and a pepperpot turret corbelled out at 1st floor level and rising through 2 storeys.
This is a finely-detailed example of a suburban villa of the period by a well-known architect. The house forms part of a good group of historic buildings including No.1 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:
- 492021
- 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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