Holywell Ford is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. Building. 2 related planning applications.

Holywell Ford

WRENN ID
silver-tower-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1972
Type
Building
Address
Holywell Ford, St Cross Road, OX1 3TP
OS grid reference
SP 521 065
Coordinates
51.75477, -1.24535
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holywell Ford is an L-shaped building constructed in 1888 by C C Rolfe, designed in a 17th-century style. It is built from rubble and features two storeys with mullioned windows. The structure includes a 12-storey bay and one single-storey bay. The roof is covered with red tiles and has red brick stacks.

Local climate

Holywell Ford 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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