The College is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. House, museum, cottage. 1 related planning application.
The College
- WRENN ID
- slow-sentry-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1984
- Type
- House, museum, cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP 5302 LITTLEMORE COLLEGE LANE (North side) 15/97 The College.
- II
Home of religious community,now cottages and museum. Late C18/early C19 converted c.1842 from farm buildings for J.H. (later Cardinal) Newman. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick ridge stacks. L-plan on 2 sides of a walled garden. One-storey entrance range has wide through passage under a weatherboarded gable. To right are five 2-light casements and a door, with 10 similar windows to left, some converted from doors. All have ashlar quoins and segmental arches. Range returning to left on Cowley Road has four 2-light casements and a door, and the furthermost bay has a 3-light casement beneath a brick upper storey. The rear of the entrance range has a renewed timber loggia. Interior: Newman's room has a brick floor and a stone fireplace with basket grate, and is entered through an internal matchboard porch leading also to his adjacent oratory where he was received into the Roman Catholic Church in c.1845. (V.C.H. Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.212-3).
Listing NGR: SP5390202890
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