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86 and 87, High Street

A Grade II* Listed Building in Oxford, Oxfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7525 / 51°45'9"N

Longitude: -1.2508 / 1°15'2"W

OS Eastings: 451812

OS Northings: 206244

OS Grid: SP518062

Mapcode National: GBR 8Z4.2L0

Mapcode Global: VHCXV.86LW

Plus Code: 9C3WQP3X+2M

Entry Name: 86 and 87, High Street

Listing Date: 12 January 1954

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1047248

English Heritage Legacy ID: 245520

ID on this website: 101047248

Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1

County: Oxfordshire

District: Oxford

Electoral Ward/Division: Holywell

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Oxford

Traditional County: Oxfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Oxford St Mary the Virgin with St Cross with St Peter-in-the-East,

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


HIGH STREET
1.
1485
(South Side)
Nos 86 &87
SP 5106 SE 9/418 12.1.54.
II* GV
2.
House and shop, 1 building. RCHM 63. Early C17 with a long wing at the
back on South East. 3-storeyed roughcast timber-framinwith cellars and an
early Cl9 (after 1814) stone Doric ground floor front with 7 engaged columns.
There is an overhang at the 2nd floor, a moulded eaves cornice and a parapet.
The lst floor has 3 sash windows in plain frames and the 2nd floor has similar
but smaller windows. At the back are also Cl9 extensions; the West side
of the early wing projects and has 3 gabled dormers. Interior. RCHM p 163
b. Includes on the ground floor good original ornamented plastered ceiling
beams and panelling and some early Cl8 panelling and a fireplace. The upper
floors have recently (1949) been altered and adapted as rooms for University
College; there are here some original plastered and ornamented ceiling beams,
panelling and stone fireplaces and an early cl8 staircase.History:- For
leases and tenants 1565-1884 see Oxf Hist Soc LVI (1914) 167-9 and Antiq
Jnl XXVII (1947), 139. Once the site of Boster Hall and Saracen's Head.

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


Listing NGR: SP5181206244

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