The Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Institute is a Grade I listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. A C19 Museum. 5 related planning applications.
The Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Institute
- WRENN ID
- bitter-turret-sepia
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- The Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Institute, St Giles Street, OX1 2PH
- OS grid reference
- SP 511 065
- Coordinates
- 51.75543, -1.26009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Institute is a Grade I listed building located at the corner of St Giles's Street and Beaumont Street. This combined structure, which includes No 41 Beaumont Street, was constructed between 1841 and 1845 based on Neo-Greek designs by Charles Robert Cockerell. It is built from Bath (Box Ground) stone on a plinth of Permian sandstone, featuring columns, pilasters, and entablatures made of Portland stone, along with decorative elements in terra-cotta. The Taylor Institution, which forms the east wing, was founded, built, and endowed by Sir Robert Taylor. The Ashmolean Museum, which comprises the central range and the west wing, has undergone several alterations and extensions in the years 1892-1895, 1900, 1908, 1923-1928, 1933, and 1937-1940. The most recent extension, completed in 1939-1940, added a new frontage on Beaumont Street, constructed with Clipsham stone for the rusticated ground floor and Bath (Monks Park) stone for the upper storeys, designed by E. Stanley Hall.
Local climate
The Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Institute 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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