86 And 87, High Street

HIGH STREET 1. 1485 (South Side) Nos 86 &87 SP 5106 SE 9/418 12.1.54. II* GV 2. House and shop, 1 building. RCHM 63. Early C17 with a long wing at the back on South East. 3-storeyed roughcast timber-framinwith cellars and an early Cl9 (after 1814) stone Doric ground floor front with 7 engaged columns. There is an overhang at the 2nd floor, a moulded eaves cornice and a parapet. The lst floor has 3 sash windows in plain frames and the 2nd floor has similar but smaller windows. At the back are also Cl9 extensions; the West side of the early wing projects and has 3 gabled dormers. Interior. RCHM p 163 b. Includes on the ground floor good original ornamented plastered ceiling beams and panelling and some early Cl8 panelling and a fireplace. The upper floors have recently (1949) been altered and adapted as rooms for University College; there are here some original plastered and ornamented ceiling beams, panelling and stone fireplaces and an early cl8 staircase.History:- For leases and tenants 1565-1884 see Oxf Hist Soc LVI (1914) 167-9 and Antiq Jnl XXVII (1947), 139. Once the site of Boster Hall and Saracen's Head.

All the listed buildings on the South Side form a group.

Listing NGR: SP5181206244