65, St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 2001. House, office. 1 related planning application.

65, St Giles

WRENN ID
keen-porch-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 2001
Type
House, office
Address
65, St Giles, OX1 3LU
OS grid reference
SP 511 066
Coordinates
51.75603, -1.25981
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

65 St Giles is a house that has been converted into offices. It dates from the early 18th century and was remodeled in the late 18th century by Henry Keene. The building underwent alterations and extensions around 1860 and further changes in the late 20th century. It features a combination of rendered stone and brick with a slate hipped roof behind a parapet and a gable-ended roof on the rear wing. There is a stone rubble stack on the side.

The building has three storeys and a three-window front. The ground floor includes a pointed arch doorway on the left with a hoodmould and a large modern shop window on the right. On the first floor, there is a large three-light canted bay window set back slightly on the right, featuring large 12-pane sashes in moulded cases and a moulded cornice above. The second floor has four 9-pane sashes, with a moulded cornice leading to the parapet above. At the rear, there is a doorway with a large overlight and one and two-light sashes with glazing bars.

Inside, there is a late 18th-century open-well staircase leading from the first to the second floor. This staircase has a Chinoiserie balustrade with a moulded mahogany handrail that ramps up to slender turned newels. The principal room on the first floor at the front has a moulded ceiling cornice, a large chimneypiece with engaged Ionic columns and an entablature, and a fielded six-panel door with a moulded architrave and overdoor. There are various late 18th-century and 19th-century chimneypieces with grates, including an early 18th-century chimneypiece with a 19th-century grate in the first-floor front room.

It is noted that in the late 18th century, No. 65 St Giles was likely remodeled by Henry Keene, who acquired a lease on the property in 1768.

Local climate

65, St Giles 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. 66 and 67, St Giles Grade II 20 m
  2. St Johns College, Wall of Forecourt in St Giles Street Grade II 37 m
  3. Extension of the Taylor Institute Grade II 39 m
  4. Blackfriars Grade II 40 m
  5. St Johns College, West Range Grade I 56 m
  6. St Johns College, Cooks Building Grade I 67 m
  7. St Johns College, Boundary Wall Fronting St Giles Street, Between the North Range and Cooks Building Grade II 67 m
  8. The Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Institute Grade I 69 m
  9. St Johns College, Screen Fronting St Giles Street Grade II 72 m
  10. St Johns College, North Range Including Chapel and Hall Grade I 81 m