18, Holywell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. A Medieval House.
18, Holywell Street
- WRENN ID
- vast-chamber-autumn
- 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
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- SP 517 065
- Coordinates
- 51.75503, -1.25129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 18 Holywell Street is a house dating from the 19th century, featuring a front that is three stories high and covered in stucco, possibly over brick. It has cellars and attic dormers concealed behind a parapet. The rear and the east top gable are constructed in modern red brick. The building has rusticated quoins and a moulded eaves cornice. On the ground floor, there are two sash windows with stepped keystones, while the upper floor windows have plain reveals and stone cills. The front doorway, located at the east end of the south front, is topped with a stone hood supported by scroll brackets. All the listed buildings on the north side of Holywell Street form a group.
Local climate
18, 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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