4, Holywell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. A C18 House.

4, Holywell Street

WRENN ID
tall-loggia-plum
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 518 065
Coordinates
51.75492, -1.2499
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 4 Holywell Street is a house dating from the early 18th century, which has been altered over time. It features a narrow, three-storey front that is stuccoed and timber-framed. The second floor has a moulded wood band, and there is a moulded eaves cornice above a small stuccoed parapet. On the ground floor, there is one 18th-century type sash window, and the front doorway is framed with reeded wood and has a bracketed hood. The first floor includes a splayed bay window with 18th-century type sashes, while the second floor has two sash windows set in moulded wood frames. All the listed buildings on the north side of the street form a group.

Local climate

4, 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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