Former Houses of Correction and Attached Carpenters Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1993. A 18th century Prison. 2 related planning applications.

Former Houses of Correction and Attached Carpenters Shop

WRENN ID
sleeping-flagstone-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 1993
Type
Prison
Period
18th century
Address
Former Houses of Correction and Attached Carpenters Shop, New Road, OX1 1ND
OS grid reference
SP 509 061
Coordinates
51.7514, -1.26309
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former Houses of Correction and attached Carpenter's Shop, now used as a works office, stores, and kitchen, were likely built in 1788 by William Blackburn and have been altered since. The buildings, which were once connected by the Keeper's House (now demolished), are constructed of coursed rubble with stone dressings and quoins. The Houses of Correction are rectangular blocks with hipped roofs covered in slate, standing two storeys tall with five windows on each side. The windows on the ground floor are half-height and stone-dressed, while the first floors feature continuous sill bands. The Carpenter's Shop is a single-storey structure with a pitched slate roof. It has symmetrical entrances on either side of a central window, with a blocked former entrance to the right. Inside, there is a right-hand end internal partition wall with a blocked archway and a partly stone flagged floor.

Local climate

Former Houses of Correction and Attached Carpenters Shop 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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