Description

ST GILES
1.
5353
Nos 66 and 67
SP5106 NW 5/522
II G.V.
2.
Pair of shops. 1869 by G Wyatt in the style of the Gothic Oxford University
Museum designed by Benjamin Woodward in 1860. 3 storeys and attic. Irregular
3 bay front. Coursed, squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Plain tile
roof with coped gables and moulded ridge and gable stacks. Cornice with cable
moulding and strings at 1st and 2nd floor level with coloured bends above. 2 bays
with splayed oriel windows with pyramidical roofs. 2 gabled, dormers with paired
arched windows. Segmental arched, recessed sash windows with moulded reveals and
hood moulds with masks. Cast iron window guards. Good Victorian shop front with
pilasters and columnettes with crochet capitals and Caernarvon arches.
Doors with feathered wooden panels and fanlights. The last surviving Victorian
Gothic shop front in Oxford.

Listing NGR: SP5117706613

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26299190

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)