56, Holywell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. House.
56, Holywell Street
- WRENN ID
- lone-trefoil-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SP 516 065
- Coordinates
- 51.75498, -1.25293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 Holywell Street is a late 18th-century building that likely incorporates an older structure. It features a stucco front with corner pilasters and stands three storeys tall with three windows. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and the ground floor windows are slightly recessed with arches. The second-floor windows have cast iron grilles. There is a parapet with a band, although the roof is not visible. The entrance to the building is located in Bath Place. This building is part of a group of listed buildings on the south side of Holywell Street.
Local climate
56, 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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