38, Holywell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. House. 2 related planning applications.

38, Holywell Street

WRENN ID
roaming-chapel-harvest
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
38, Holywell Street, OX1 3SW
OS grid reference
SP 516 065
Coordinates
51.75512, -1.25379
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

38 Holywell Street is a Grade II listed building dating from the 18th to 19th century. It features a narrow three-storey stucco front. The ground floor has a modern sash window with glazing bars and a moulded architrave. On the first floor, there is an 18th or 19th-century sash window, while the second floor has a two-light casement window. The building is topped with a modillioned eaves cornice. The interior has been remodelled, and the north elevation was modernised between 1970 and 1971. This building is part of a group of listed buildings on the north side of Holywell Street.

Local climate

38, 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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