96-101, WALTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392942
Date first listed:: 07-Oct-2008
List Entry Name:: 96-101, WALTON STREET
Statutory Address:: 96-101, WALTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392942
Date first listed:: 07-Oct-2008
List Entry Name:: 96-101, WALTON STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 96-101, WALTON STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 96-101, WALTON 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 50650 07202

Reasons for Designation

There are many attractive C19 and early C20 buildings in north Oxford, and great care needs to be exercised in selecting from among them those which through their design, or historic significance, meet the criteria to be added to the list. This is a pleasing and simple terrace with distinctive diaper decoration to the front (used on a good number of buildings of about this date in north Oxford) which survives in a little-altered condition. Because of its architectural quality and distinctiveness, and as a survival of the early growth of north Oxford, the terrace is designated at grade II.

Details

612/0/10127 WALTON STREET 07-OCT-08 96-101

II BUILDING: Terrace of six cottages.

DATE: Deeds said to date from 1829.

ARCHITECT: None known; presumably a speculative development.

MATERIALS: Chequer brick with slate roofs and brick stacks. Ashlar band above basement; flush blue brick string course at first-floor level.

PLAN: Terraced row.

FAÇADE: 2 storeys and basement. Each cottage has single bay of 12-pane sashes with narrow glazing bars and colourwashed stone voussoir heads, the sashes to No. 101 renewed in matching style. No. 96 to left, with slightly wider frontage, has additional first-floor sash. Doorways to the left of each cottage have narrow over-lights and various doors, Nos. 96, 97 and 99 retaining original flush-panelled doors. Basement openings re-worked C20, Nos. 98-101 with variously enlarged wells concealed behind low front walls.

Rear: roughcast and colourwashed with narrow 2-storey service projections below main eaves, that to No. 96 enlarged C20. Remainder have small C20 flat-roofed extensions to ground floor but retain first-floor sashes. Interiors: No. 101 has front parlour with plaster ceiling cornice and original wooden fireplace surround, with paterae and variant reeding. Grate altered. Rear room with later C19 arched cast iron grate. 2 original fireplaces upstairs with simple wooden surrounds and hob grates with lozenge panels. Narrow stairs at rear of entrance passage, with plank partition, and matchstick balustrade with turned newel to landing. Stairs down to front basement only. No. 99 similar, but with only one original hob grate upstairs, no rear grate, and square arch opening up ground-floor rooms. No. 96 said to retain wainscoting and fireplaces.

HISTORY: Although nothing is specifically known of the terrace's origins, through its date, character, and location its place in the development of north Oxford can be read architecturally. SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: There are many attractive C19 and early C20 buildings in north Oxford, and great care needs to be exercised in selecting from among them those which through their design, or historic significance, meet the criteria to be added to the list. This is a pleasing and simple terrace with distinctive diaper decoration to the front (used on a good number of buildings of about this date in north Oxford) which survives in a little-altered condition. Because of its architectural quality and distinctiveness, and as a survival of the early growth of north Oxford, the terrace merits being added to the list at grade II.

SOURCES: T. Hinchcliffe, North Oxford (1992)

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 493669
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Hinchcliffe, T , North Oxford

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.