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Latitude: 51.7579 / 51°45'28"N
Longitude: -1.2541 / 1°15'14"W
OS Eastings: 451578
OS Northings: 206847
OS Grid: SP515068
Mapcode National: GBR 8YY.MRY
Mapcode Global: VHCXV.62VP
Plus Code: 9C3WQP5W+59
Entry Name: 1, South Parks Road
Listing Date: 15 September 2004
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1391088
English Heritage Legacy ID: 491229
ID on this website: 101391088
Location: Norham Manor, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1
County: Oxfordshire
District: Oxford
Electoral Ward/Division: Holywell
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Oxford
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Oxford St Mary the Virgin with St Cross with St Peter-in-the-East,
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
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612/0/10099 SOUTH PARKS ROAD
15-SEP-04 1
GV II
House, now University of Oxford offices. 1868-9. By William Wilkinson. For John C. Wilson. Buff brick with red brick dressings and plain-tile roof with various elaborate ridge and end stacks. High Victorian style with string courses and mostly with stone mullion windows with sashes. Central entrance plan. 2 storeys and attic. Front has a pictureque outline with a central range with roof descending lower and with a gabled cross-wing either side. A 5-window range in all across the front at 1st floor. Central range has an elaborate gabled wooden porch and windows either side. 3 windows over. 2 gabled dormers on the long roof slope above. Cross wing to left has canted bay with 2-light window above and 3-light in attic. Right gable has 3-light with 2-light over and 3-light in attic. Single-storey gabled service wing projects forward on right and there is a projection culminating in a pyramidal roof with finial behind this wing. A further gable and sashes behind. Left side includes a side stack which slightly projects all the way up the wall. Rear is similar with a 4-gabled front with mainly 2- and 3-light stone mullion windows with sashes.
INTERIOR. Good original joinery survives, including the staircase, and also stone fireplaces.
This is a finely-detailed example of a suburban villa of the period by a well-known architect. The house also forms part of a good group of historic buildings including No.2, adjacent (q.v.), and Rhodes House (q.v.) opposite.
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