6, Oriel Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. House.

6, Oriel Street

WRENN ID
late-glass-shade
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
OS grid reference
SP 515 061
Coordinates
51.75203, -1.25404
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 6 Oriel Street is a house dating from the early 18th century. It is three storeys high, constructed with a timber frame and covered in stucco, and it includes cellars and attics. The ground floor features two modern wood sash windows with semi-circular heads and decorative spandrels. On the first floor, there are two 19th-century sash windows, while the second floor has two sash windows dating from the 18th to 19th centuries, all set in wood frames. Above the second floor, there is a moulded cornice and two gabled dormers, each containing a sash window. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 7 Oriel Square and Nos 1 to 10 and No 12 Oriel Street.

Local climate

6, Oriel 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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