17, Holywell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. House.
17, Holywell Street
- WRENN ID
- sunken-pavement-grain
- 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 517 065
- Coordinates
- 51.75503, -1.25116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
17 Holywell Street is a house dating from the 16th to 17th century, featuring a three-storey roughcast timber-framed front with two gables. The front includes two tall early 18th-century sash windows set in moulded frames, along with brick stacks. The ground floor has a wide modern three-light casement window and two doorways; the eastern doorway serves as the front entrance and has a moulded wood square-headed frame with enriched stop-chamfered details and a rectangular fanlight above. The base of this doorway is ancient, although the fanlight frame has been renewed. On the first floor, there are two 18th-century sash windows in moulded frames. To the west and behind the front gables is another similar gable, likely dating from the 16th to 17th century. The interior features a late 17th-century staircase, a stone fireplace, and a doorframe. All the listed buildings on the north side of Holywell Street form a group.
Local climate
17, 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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