13 and 13a, Holywell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. A C17 House.

13 and 13a, Holywell Street

WRENN ID
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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
OS grid reference
SP 518 065
Coordinates
51.75501, -1.25083
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 13 and 13A on Holywell Street is an early 17th-century house that stands two stories tall and is constructed of rubble stone. It features two prominent gabled dormers, each topped with stone copings, and contains original three-light stone ovolo-moulded mullioned windows with square labels in each gable. Below the dormers, there is a moulded stone string course. The house has a modern brown tiled roof, and on the east side, there is a moulded stone-based stack with a modern brick chimney.

On the ground floor, there are two 18th-century wooden sliding Yorkshire casement windows flanking a plain doorway. The central passageway leads to a yard at the back, suggesting that the house was likely originally divided into two cottages. The first floor has two moulded stone window frames with square heads and 18th-century casement windows, although the stone mullions have been removed. The rear of the house features a large gable and a projecting stone stack. Inside, there is an original fireplace.

This building is part of a group of listed buildings on the north side of Holywell Street.

Local climate

13 and 13a, Holywell 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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