56, St Giles Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. House.
56, St Giles Street
- WRENN ID
- sheer-marble-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SP 511 067
- Coordinates
- 51.75686, -1.26027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 on St Giles Street is a house with a 19th-century shop, located on a corner site. It dates from the 18th to 19th centuries and is built of ashlar stone, featuring three storeys and a moulded parapet. Above the parapet is a mansard roof covered with Welsh slate, which includes two attics with 2-light windows. There are brick chimney stacks present. The ground floor has a shop front, while the first and second floors each have two sash windows with plain reveals and glazing bars. The south elevation facing Pusey Street is finished in stucco. This building is part of a group that includes Nos. 31 to 46 and Nos. 49 to 56.
Local climate
56, St Giles 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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