Description

HOLYWELL STREET 1. 1485 (North Side) No 2 SP 5106 NE 6/223 12.1.54. II GV 2. House. RCHM 219. Originally early C17, Partly re-modelled in C18. 3-storeyed timber-framing on an ashlar base with cellars, the windows of which are above the street level. These are modern brick stacks and a Welsh slate roof. On the south elevation is an overhang at the 1st and 2nd floors. On the ground floor are 2 projecting and splayed stone bay windows with modern stone 4-light moulded mullioned frames with sashes. The front door is in a plain moulded stone frame and there are 5 stone steps up to it. Over the doorway, the overhang of the 1st floor (which is roughcast) is supported on 2 modern wooden scrolled brackets, on the face of each of which is a shield, that on the west bearing 3 chevrons (? for Merton College), that on the east being blank; there are similar but ancient brackets (with blank shields) at the east and west ends of the house at this level. The 2 windows of the 1st floor each project on 3 wooden scrolled and enriched consoles on which are blank wooden shields; each window has 2 C18 sashes to the front and 1 small sash on each return. The 2nd floor has 5 sash windows (the 2 outside having double sashes) and the whole of this floor is boxed-out and roughcast and is a C18 (? late C17) addition or remodelling. To the west is a single-storeyed stuccoed block on cellars with an attic dormer in a modern red tile roof; in the ground floor is a 3-light stone-framed sash window, the whole being in a shallow recess with a segmental head. Interior. RCHM p 182a. Includes a C18 fireplace and some C18 panelling. For a drawing the exterior made in 1822 by J C Buckler, see Bodl M S Don a. 3 II, 31.

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

Listing NGR: SP5190106508

External Links

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