1, St Giles Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. House, offices.
1, St Giles Street
- WRENN ID
- sharp-timber-dale
- 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, offices
- OS grid reference
- SP 512 065
- Coordinates
- 51.75553, -1.2588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 St Giles Street is a late 18th-century house and office building. It is three stories tall, constructed of ashlar stone, and features a moulded cornice, a parapet, a stone slate roof, and two red brick chimney stacks.
On the south side, there is a two-story, three-sided bay that contains sash windows. The north side features a pedimented Doric stone doorway flanked by pilasters and an entablature, with a single sash window on either side. Above the doorway, on the first floor, is a three-light sash window with a segmental architrave. The second floor has two smaller three-light sash windows, also with segmental architraves.
This building is part of a group that includes Nos 1, 11 to 17 (consecutive), 19, 20, Black Hall, part of Queen Elizabeth House, and Nos 22 and 23.
Local climate
1, 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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