Black Hall

ST GILES' STREET 1. 1485 (East Side) Black Hall SP 5106 NW 5/532 12.1.54. II GV 2. RCHM 184. Early C17 house remodelled C17-18 and restored and a North wing added in early C19 by Joseph Parker. The West elevation is 3-storeyed ashlar with a central bay and an attic floor in a gable. In the bay, the ground floor has a stone window of 4 mullioned lights with single return lights, the 1st floor a 3-light sash window and in the 2nd floor is a Venetian-style centre light with flanking mullioned lights over this window is a lead pent roof. There are moulded strings at 1st and 2nd floors and below the attic floor. The stone mullioned attic window is of 3 lights with a moulded cornice. The later North wing is of 2-storeyed ashlar with a moulded string at the lst floor and a parapet; in the ground floor is a 4-centred headed stone doorway and sash windows; in the 1st floor are 2 sash windows with moulded architraves and a continuous string. The South elevation has a modillioned eaves cornice and late Cl7 mullioned and transomed wood-framed windows; there is a columned late C18 doorway. The East elevation has a Cl8-19 bay window. Interior. RCHM p 17 a. Includes Cl7-C18 staircase and a Cl7 fireplace. History. See Wood's Life (0xf Hist Soc) XIX 279, XXI 153; Wood's City (OHS) XV 354, 356-7, 627; XVII 69; and "Monthly Rev British Council", March 1948 p 259; and Gardner's Gazetteer, Oxon (1852) p 287.

Nos 1, 11 to 17 (consec), l9, 20, Black Hall, Part of Queen Elizabeth House and Nos 22 and 23 form a group.

Listing NGR: SP5119906880