66 and 67, St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1984. Shop. 2 related planning applications.
66 and 67, St Giles
- WRENN ID
- ragged-thatch-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1984
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 66 and 67, St Giles, OX1 3LU
- OS grid reference
- SP 511 066
- Coordinates
- 51.75588, -1.25995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
66 and 67 St Giles is a pair of shops built in 1869 by G Wyatt, designed in the Gothic style reminiscent of the Oxford University Museum by Benjamin Woodward from 1860. The building has three storeys and an attic, featuring an irregular three-bay front made of coursed, squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. The roof is covered in plain tiles with coped gables and moulded ridge and gable stacks. There is a cornice with cable moulding and string courses at the first and second floor levels, adorned with colored bends above.
Two bays have splayed oriel windows topped with pyramidical roofs, and there are two gabled dormers with paired arched windows. The segmental arched, recessed sash windows have moulded reveals and hood moulds with masks, and there are cast iron window guards. The shop front is a notable example of Victorian design, featuring pilasters and columnettes with crochet capitals and Caernarvon arches. The doors are decorated with feathered wooden panels and fanlights. This building is recognized as the last surviving Victorian Gothic shop front in Oxford.
Local climate
66 and 67, 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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