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Cooper's Marmalade Factory

A Grade II Listed Building in Oxford, Oxfordshire

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Latitude: 51.7525 / 51°45'9"N

Longitude: -1.2677 / 1°16'3"W

OS Eastings: 450649

OS Northings: 206233

OS Grid: SP506062

Mapcode National: GBR 7XS.4BB

Mapcode Global: VHCXT.Z66V

Plus Code: 9C3WQP3J+2W

Entry Name: Cooper's Marmalade Factory

Listing Date: 27 July 2000

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1381170

English Heritage Legacy ID: 481530

ID on this website: 101381170

Location: New Osney, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1

County: Oxfordshire

District: Oxford

Electoral Ward/Division: Carfax

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Oxford

Traditional County: Oxfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Oxford St Barnabas with St Thomas the Martyr

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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SP5006SE PARK END STREET
612/7/10070 27
27-JUL-00 Cooper's Marmalade Factory

II

Marmalade factory, converted to offices. 1902-3; by Herbert Quinton; extended 1925. Red brick with Bath stone dressings. Roof concealed behind parapets.
PLAN: Main block with central carriageway through to single storey ranges at rear with tall chimney. Main building extended in 1925 to left [E] and at rear.
Late Victorian Freestyle.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay north front. Small Tuscan columns to ground floor windows supporting entablature and at centre rusticated pilasters flanking an elliptically arched carriageway with spandrels carved with arabesques and ornate wrought-iron gates with an overthrow, also featuring arabesque and scroll decoration. The first and second floors are united by segmentally arched recesses in which the windows of both floors are set, the second floor windows of a Diocletian type, the centre window bowed and with a frieze of panels with carved stone festoons. Stone third storey treated as an attic with rusticated pilasters and bulbous Tuscan columns between the windows and with shaped parapet above with ball finials. 1925 2-storey extension on left with similar details, continued around the back, where the main elevation is plain with segmental headed windows. Single storey ranges at rear connected to main range by glazed canopy, and tall brick chimney stack.
INTERIOR converted to offices.
NOTE: Frank Cooper's marmalade was originally a by-product of the family grocery business in High Street, Oxford, but the business grew to such an extent that this factory was built in 1902 to satisfy demand.


Listing NGR: SP5064906233

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