28, Holywell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. House.
28, Holywell Street
- WRENN ID
- rooted-groin-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- 28, Holywell Street, OX1 3SB
- OS grid reference
- SP 517 065
- Coordinates
- 51.75511, -1.25223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 28 on Holywell Street is a house built around 1661, although its front has been remodeled. It is a three-storey structure with stuccoed timber framing set on a stone base, featuring cellars, a moulded eaves cornice, a parapet, and brick stacks. The front doorway is flanked by splayed bay windows that extend to the second floor, with sashes that have glazing bars in moulded and reeded wood frames. The doorway itself has an early 19th-century reeded frame and architraves, topped with a rectangular panel. At the back, the walls are made of ashlar, and there is a rainwater-head dated 1662. Inside, the house includes contemporary panelling, a fireplace with an overmantel dated 1661, and a late 17th-century staircase. This building is part of a group of listed buildings on the north side of the street.
Local climate
28, Holywell Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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