82 And 83, St Aldates Street

82 and 83 St Aldates Street are two houses and shops that form one building, originally dating from the 15th century and remodeled in the early 17th century. This architecturally significant structure is two stories high, built of rubble with a Welsh slate roof. It features two timber-framed gabled attic dormers over No 82 and a gable over No 83. A thin-bricked central stack has diagonally set shafts.

Inside, there is a passageway, with part of the south side lined with some 15th-century studding, and each house has a side doorway. No 82 has a modern six-light mullion window on the ground floor, with remnants of a 17th-century cornice above it, and a 17th-century six-light stone mullioned window in a moulded frame on the first floor. The attic dormers have modern casement lights, but the 17th-century cills and brackets remain below. No 83 features a ground floor shop front with part of the original cornice, and above it is a three-sided bay window containing a 17th-century five-light stone mullioned window in a moulded frame with return lights. The gable has moulded barge-boards, and over the central passageway on the first floor is a modern two-light casement window. At the back, in the north wall of the south wing, there is a 17th-century three-light oriel window with return lights on a scrolled bracket. The north boundary wall of No 83 has a blocked two-light 17th-century window visible from the south.

The interior includes plaster ceilings that may date to the early 17th century, adorned with shields of arms of Robert King, Bishop of Oxford, who died in 1557, and some 17th-century panelling. The south side of the passageway retains some 15th-century studding. Historically, the building was known as Margaret (or Mariole) Hall and belonged to Littlemore Priory, later referred to as Littlemore Hall, although the current structure has no academic connection. It underwent a major restoration in 1965. The shop of No 83 is featured as the Sheep's shop in "Through the Looking Glass." Nos 82 to 92 form a group.