Description

HOLYWELL STREET
1.
1485
(North Side)
Nos 13 & 13A
SP 5106 NE 6/214 12.1.54.
II GV
2.
House. RCHM 210. Early C17 2-storeyed rubble with 2 tall gabled dormers
with stone copings. In each gable is an original 3-light stone ovolo-moulded
mullioned window with a square label. Below the dormers is a moulded stone
string. There is a modern brown tiled roof and on the East is a moulded
stone-based stack with a modern brick shaft. The ground floor has 2 C18
wooden sliding Yorkshire casement windows with a plain doorway in between
them. The central passage way through the house leads to a yard at the back
and the house was probably originally divided into 2 cottages. The 1st floor
has 2 moulded stone window frames with square heads and 2-light C18 casement
windows, the stone mullions having been removed. The back on North has a
large gable and a projecting stone stack. Interior: RCHM p 181 b. Includes
an original fireplace.

All the listed buildings on the North Side form a group.

Listing NGR: SP5180806522

Selected Sources

• Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 181

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