Black Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. House.
Black Hall
- WRENN ID
- dusted-balcony-river
- 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
- Address
- Black Hall, St Giles Street
- OS grid reference
- SP 512 068
- Coordinates
- 51.75828, -1.2596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black Hall is an early 17th century house that was remodeled in the 17th to 18th centuries and restored with a north wing added in the early 19th century by Joseph Parker. The west elevation features three stories of ashlar stone with a central bay and an attic floor in a gable. In this bay, the ground floor has a stone window with four mullioned lights and single return lights, while the first floor has a three-light sash window. The second floor includes a Venetian-style center light flanked by mullioned lights, topped by a lead pent roof. Moulded strings are present at the first and second floors and below the attic floor. The stone mullioned attic window consists of three lights and has a moulded cornice.
The later north wing is two stories high, also made of ashlar, with a moulded string at the first floor and a parapet. The ground floor features a four-centred headed stone doorway and sash windows, while the first floor has two sash windows with moulded architraves and a continuous string. The south elevation showcases a modillioned eaves cornice and late 17th century mullioned and transomed wood-framed windows, along with a columned late 18th century doorway. The east elevation has a late 18th to early 19th century bay window.
Inside, the property includes a staircase from the 17th to 18th centuries and a 17th century fireplace. Black Hall is part of a group that includes Nos 1, 11 to 17 (consecutive), 19, 20, Queen Elizabeth House, and Nos 22 and 23.
Local climate
Black Hall 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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- 20, St Giles Street
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- Boundary Wall of Black Hall Fronting Black Hall Road
- Flanking Walls and Gateway of the Driveway to St Giles House, Being the North Garden Wall of Number 15 and the South Garden Wall of Number 16
- Numbers 15 and 16 and Attached Walls