12, Ship Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. A Post-medieval House.
12, Ship Street
- WRENN ID
- western-stair-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
- Period
- Post-medieval
- OS grid reference
- SP 513 063
- Coordinates
- 51.75384, -1.25731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 Ship Street is a house dating from the 17th century, featuring a narrow two-storey front added in the 18th century. The building has an overhang at the first floor, cellars, and a large gable under a hipped roof covered in Welsh slate. The ground floor includes a three-light casement window flanked by side pilasters. In the gable, there is an 18th to 19th century sash window, and the first floor has one sash window. Notably, the rubble north wall of the cellar aligns with the city wall. This property is part of a group that includes the Church of St Michael on Cornmarket Street and Nos 1 to 6 and 8 to 16 Ship Street.
Local climate
12, Ship 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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