66 AND 67, ST GILES

ST GILES 1. 5353 Nos 66 and 67 SP5106 NW 5/522 II G.V. 2. Pair of shops. 1869 by G Wyatt in the style of the Gothic Oxford University Museum designed by Benjamin Woodward in 1860. 3 storeys and attic. Irregular 3 bay front. Coursed, squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof with coped gables and moulded ridge and gable stacks. Cornice with cable moulding and strings at 1st and 2nd floor level with coloured bends above. 2 bays with splayed oriel windows with pyramidical roofs. 2 gabled, dormers with paired arched windows. Segmental arched, recessed sash windows with moulded reveals and hood moulds with masks. Cast iron window guards. Good Victorian shop front with pilasters and columnettes with crochet capitals and Caernarvon arches. Doors with feathered wooden panels and fanlights. The last surviving Victorian Gothic shop front in Oxford.

Listing NGR: SP5117706613