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LADY MARGARET HALL, OLD HALL

LADY MARGARET HALL, OLD HALL, NORHAM GARDENS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1046698
Date first listed:: 27-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:: LADY MARGARET HALL, OLD HALL
Statutory Address:: LADY MARGARET HALL, OLD HALL, NORHAM GARDENS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1046698
Date first listed:: 27-Jun-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: LADY MARGARET HALL, OLD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: LADY MARGARET HALL, OLD HALL, NORHAM GARDENS

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LADY MARGARET HALL, OLD HALL, NORHAM GARDENS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Oxford (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 51574 07585

Details

1. 1485 LADY MARGARET HALL Old Hall SP 50 NW 24/33E

II

2. Mid C19. Gothic style, altered. Yellow brick. 2 storeys, basement and attic. 3:1:2 windows, the centre one recessed; wooden sashes. Gabled porch. Gabled slate roof.

Old Hall shall be amended to read:-

Old Hall (the original portion)

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LADY MARGARET HALL 1. 1485 Old Hall SP 50 NW 24/33E II

The entry shall be amended to read:- OXFORD SP50NW NORHAM GARDENS 612-0/24/33E Lady Margaret Hall: Old Hall 28/06/72 GV II University college, women's hall. Circa 1879, by Pike and Messenger or Willson Beasley for St Johns College's Norham Manor Estate; extended 1881-3 by Basil Chawneys for Lady Margaret Hall. Original part gault brick with stone dressings and slate gabled roof; extension red brick with some moulded brick dressings and tiled roof with shaped gable ends; brick stacks. PLAN: The original house to the right, [west],is a large Victorian villa in a basically Gothic style; it was extended in 1881-3 in a Queen Anne/Dutch style; the extension has a double-pile plan on three floors with chambers at the front and back off axial corridors and there is a separate staircase in a smaller linking block at the right end. EXTERIOR: Original house on right: 2 storeys attic and basement, 3:1:2 bays gabled to left and right and with gabled dormer at centre, sashes in moulded cambered arch openings, moulded brick stringcourses and doorway at centre with stone gabled Gothic portal with short columns with carved capitals; similar at rear but canted bay on left and no portal. 1881-3 extension on left [east]: 2 storeys and attic, 4 symmetrical bays divided on first floor and attic by brick pilasters on little consoles and moulded brick stringcourses breaking forwards at the pilasters and at the attic window aprons, the first floor windows have similar shaped brick aprons and both the upper floor windows have moulded brick cornices, the attic with little Dutch gables over; the parapets between rise up over the pilasters; the ground floor is plain but all the windows have pairs of tall 12-pine sashes in moulded cases. Set back on left is a small 3-storey 3-window link, partly roughcast. Similar 4-bay rear elevation but without pilasters and parapet and with hipped dormers. INTERIOR: Original house has an open-well staircase with a moulded wooden balustrade. The 1881-3 extension appears to be virtually unaltered inside and has a good dog-leg staircase with moulded balusters and moulded handrail ramped up to clustered baluster newels; staircase and corridors have round arches, the corridors with ceiling cornices and panelled doors with overlights to chambers which retain their original little Baroque chimneypieces. HISTORY: Lady MmHISTORY: Lady Margaret Hall was the first women's college at Oxford. It was founded in 1878 for women to be prepared for university examinations, but it did not become a full college until 1960. Originally it occupied one of the Norham Garden villas which the College extended in 1881-3. There were further large extensions in 1896 and 1909-10 by Sir Reginald Blomfield, again in 1915 and 1926 and in 1931 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and in 1957-61 the Wolfson Quad by Raymond Erith. SOURCES: Buildings of England, Oxfordshire, pp 230-2, 317-8. Hinchcliffe,T. North Oxford, pp 153-157,233. Hibbert,C. and Hibbert,E. The Encyclopaedia of Oxford.

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LADY MARGARET HALL 1. 1485 Old Hall SP 50 NW 24/33E II 2. Mid C19. Gothic style, altered. Yellow brick. 2 storeys, basement and attic. 3:1:2 windows, the centre one recessed; wooden sashes. Gabled porch. Gabled slate roof.

Listing NGR: SP5157407585

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 244961
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hibbert, C, The Encyclopaedia of Oxford
Hinchcliffe, T , North Oxford153-157
Hinchcliffe, T , North Oxford233
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 230-232
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 317-318

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.