Bartlemas House is a Grade II* listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. House. 7 related planning applications.

Bartlemas House

WRENN ID
narrow-spandrel-owl
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1954
Type
House
Address
Bartlemas House, Cowley Road, OX4 2AJ
OS grid reference
SP 534 055
Coordinates
51.74568, -1.22694
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bartlemas House is a 17th-century building located to the north of St Bartholomew's Chapel, part of St Bartholomew's Hospital, which was rebuilt by Oriel College in 1649. The house is constructed of rubble and has a long rectangular plan that originally provided four tenements but is now a single residence. It features a stone slate roof and two moulded stone end stacks with moulded stone shafts, along with two projecting stone stacks at the back.

The south elevation includes two plain stone doorways with 4-centred heads and four-light stone mullioned windows, some of which have been partly renewed. There are also two similar doorways and single light windows on this elevation. The east elevation has additional stone mullioned windows.

Inside, the house contains several stone fireplaces and a mix of original and modern (1922) wood doorframes, which bear initials and dates in the spandrels, including "I.S.P." for John Saunders, who was Provost from 1644 to 1653. The roof timbers appear to have been mostly renewed.

Local climate

Bartlemas House 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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