68, Holywell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. House.
68, Holywell Street
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-groin-gilt
- 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
- OS grid reference
- SP 517 065
- Coordinates
- 51.75496, -1.25206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
68 Holywell Street is a house originally built in the 17th century but has been remodeled. It is three stories tall and features roughcast timber framing on a stone base, with cellars. The first floor has an overhang, and there is a moulded wood band at the second floor, a moulded wood eaves cornice, and a parapet. The ground floor includes a plain doorway and two wooden casement windows with a continuous moulded cornice above them. On the first floor, there are two 19th-century sash windows in flush wood frames, while the second floor has three ancient two-light wood-framed casement windows. Inside, the house contains some early 18th-century panelling and fireplaces. The property was formerly listed as Tower Cottage and has undergone alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The roof is covered with Welsh slate, and there are brick stacks. The ground floor has three 18th- and 19th-century sash windows with bracketed cills, and there is no front doorway. The first floor features three similar windows with moulded cornices, and the third floor has three smaller windows similar to those on the ground floor. All the buildings on the south side of Holywell Street form a group.
Local climate
68, Holywell 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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