Oxford City Council

Conservation area document

Reference	Name	Conservation area	Documentation URL	Document URL	Document type	Notes	Entry date	Start date
SSLZMFZX0002	Bartlemas	Bartlemas	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/23/downloads-for-bartlemas-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/43/bartlemas-conservation-area-overview	area-map	Bartlemas can come as a surprise to those who turn off the Cowley Road, opposite the former Regal Cinema. It comprises a small Oxfordshire hamlet of a farmhouse and cottage, with a former medieval leper hospital and chapel that, through chance of ownership, has retained its own isolated identity inside the suburbs of the city.	1976-07-16	1976-07-16
SSLZMFZX0010	Beauchamp Lane	Beauchamp Lane	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/24/downloads-for-beauchamp-lane-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/45/beauchamp-lane-conservation-area-overview	area-map	Beauchamp Lane contains a fragment of a small Oxfordshire village now embedded in the 20th century suburban development of Cowley. Its focus is the late 12th century church of St James built by Osney Abbey which overlooks a school, former farmhouse, row of three cottages and other individual houses.	1973-11-06	1973-11-06
O2N217MF0AF00	Oxford Stadium, Sandy Lane	Oxford Stadium, Sandy Lane	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/35/downloads-for-oxford-stadium-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/109/oxford-stadium-conservation-area-map	area-map	Oxford Stadium lies on the north side of Sandy Lane on the northern edge of the Blackbird Leys Estate. The site has been used by the community for greyhound racing and speedway since 1939, with evidence of an earlier unregulated flapping track in the same location. The location and character of the stadium illustrates the socio-economic character of Oxford's eastern suburbs during the 20th century. The area is representative of inter-war sport and entertainment within the city as part of Oxfrod's early 20th century growth in response to development as a manufacturing centre.	2014-04-09	2014-04-09
SSLZMFZX0004	Walton Manor	Walton Manor	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/38/downloads-for-walton-manor-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/116/walton-manor-conservation-area-overview	area-map	Walton Manor lies south of the North Oxford Victorian Suburb and north of Jericho and the Radcliffe Infirmary. The area considered here as Walton Manor is that to the south of Leckford Road that had assumed its street layout by 1850. The houses and plots are generally small and the area has a human scale, with an intricate pattern of narrow streets, and retaining slopes that mark the former gravel pits. The earlier houses date from the 1820s onwards and are built in terraces generally designed in the late Georgian vernacular manner, with divided sash windows and stucco or diaper brick fronts	1975-04-15	1975-04-15
SSLZMFZX0005	Binsey	Binsey	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/25/downloads-for-binsey-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/47/binsey-conservation-area-overview	area-map	Binsey's name most likely derives from Byni's island, which was in the nearby Thames. It belonged to St Frideswide's Priory and subsequently Christ Church became the major landowner. It survives as a predominantly small, agricultural settlement within the Green Belt and flood plain to the north-west of Oxford.	1981-02-23	1981-02-23
SSLZMFZX0003	Temple Cowley	Temple Cowley	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/37/downloads-for-temple-cowley-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/115/temple-cowley-conservation-area-overview	area-map	Temple Cowley, its name recalling the long lost medieval house of the Knights Templar, is situated to the south-east of Oxford City centre. It is bounded to the south by Oxford Road, on the east by Hollow Way, by the residential dwellings of Crescent Road to the north and public recreational buildings to the west. Superimposed on the surviving buildings of the 18th century rural settlement are the 19th and 20th century suburbs. Several institutions built the impressive 19th century complexes of the former Salesian College and the former Military Academy, later William Morris' first car factory and then the Nuffield Press. A school, St Christopher's, was erected in 1877 to serve the expanding population and St Luke's Church was erected in 1937-8 through the benevolence of Lord Nuffield.	1986-03-24	1986-03-24
LHOUMKMF0AF00	Jericho	Jericho	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/22/downloads-for-jericho-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/36/jericho-conservation-area-map	area-map	Jericho represents the Georgian and Victorian industrial and residential expansion of the City of Oxford into the surrounding countryside. It is an area of working class and artisan housing that has developed a unique character by virtue of its historical land ownership, relationship with the canal, the railway, three major employers and its unique position as a working class suburb in the midst of the middle and upper class estate that was developed by St John the Baptist College. The area has a distinct architectural aesthetic and is interspersed with a number outstanding examples of 18th and 19th century architecture. The contribution of Thomas Combe, the University Press and Lucy Ironworks to the creation of the character of the locality should not be underestimated. The re-development that took place, as part of the General Improvement Area status in the 1960's and 1970's, should be seen as part of the wider story in Oxford of the conflict between the preservation of historic communities and the drive for modernisation following World War II. Following the Jericho study and subsequent consultation with the local community the City Council has also taken steps to introduce further controls in order to sustain the character of the area. On the 31 March 2011 an Article 4 Direction was served restricting the permitted development rights of dwellinghouses in the Jericho area. This means that, once the Article 4 Direction comes into effect planning permission will be required for the following changes to the exterior of dwellinghouses: - The alteration or replacement of windows, cills, arches, surrounds and changes to the dimension of window openings on elevations facing onto a highway or waterway - The alteration or replacement of doors, door arches, lintels, door surrounds and changes to the dimension of door openings on elevations facing onto a highway or waterway - The insertion of rooflights facing onto a highway or waterway - Changes in roofing material - The erection or construction of a porch outside any external door of a dwellinghouse facing a highway or waterway -The erection, construction, maintenance, improvement or alteration of a gate, fence, wall or other means of enclosure facing a highway or waterway - The painting of the exterior of any building or work comprising the painting of unpainted external brick or stone wall, elevation or part of any elevation - The demolition of the whole or any part or any gate, fence, wall or other means of enclosure facing a highway or waterway - The installation, alteration or replacement of solar PV or solar thermal equipment on a roof of a dwellinghouse; or a building situated in the curtilage of a dwellinghouse and be visible from a highway or waterway Please note parts of Walton Street and Worcester Terrace are included that are located within the City (Central and University) and Walton Manor conservation areas.	2011-02-23	2011-02-23
SSLZMFZX0016	Headington Quarry	Headington Quarry	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/28/downloads-for-headington-quarry-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/77/headington-quarry-conservation-area-overview	area-map	The district known today as Quarry, stands on Corallian limestone and has its origin in the extensive quarrying industry that provided much of Oxford's building stone in the medieval and later periods. The older buildings in the Quarry do not form a village in the conventional sense, but represent the colonisation of the hills and holes left by quarrymen. The survival of these quarries in a residential area is of considerable industrial archaeological interest.	2009-02-01	1971-01-04
SSLZMFZX0012	Osney Town	Osney Town	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/34/downloads-for-osney-town-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/104/osney-town-conservation-area-overview	area-map	Osney Town is situated on an Island, formed by several branches of the River Thames or Isis, just to the south of Botley Road causeway. Its Island situation has given it an individual character of its own, dependent on a single road bridge for its vehicular access. The streets that form the present pattern were laid out in September 1851 by G P Hester, Town Clerk of Oxford. By 1852, advertisements were appearing for earth and rubbish to raise the land above flood level. Some houses were occupied by October 1852, and much of Bridge Street completed by the mid 1850s. Development also continued into the 1880s and 90s and, in the case of Doyley Road, 1908. Osney has a high townscape quality resulting from the architectural integrity of the Victorian buildings and limited 20th Century intervention. The regularity of building form and architectural details, including materials, fenestration, doorway details and roofscape contribute to the overarching character of the area giving a regular rhythm and sense of continuity to the area.	1976-07-16	1976-07-16
SSLZMFZX0007	Marston	Marston	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/31/downloads-for-old-marston-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/83/old-marston-conservation-area-overview	area-map	The name of Marston is derived from the original settlement on the marshy ground bordering the water meadows of the River Cherwell, initially, a hamlet of the manor of Headington. From the medieval period property was owned by a number of farming families, as well as the Oxford Colleges, who rented land out as farms. As a result, the village has retained a distinctive character as a focus of vernacular farmhouses and cottages dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries with more substantial houses representing settlement by Oxford tradesmen in the village in the 19th century. It retains an attractive green setting that preserves its distinctive character apart from nearby residential estates	1989-12-12	1976-07-20
SSLZMFZX0014	Littlemore	Littlemore	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/30/littlemore-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/81/littlemore-conservation-area-overview	area-map	Littlemore was identified as an area which merits protection and consideration through conservation area status in the Draft Oxford Local Plan Review, April 1992, which noted it to have an historic centre comprised of essentially two elements. The first is the predominantly rural settlement of manor house, farmhouse, barns and houses whose ages span the 15th to 18th centuries. The second is that resulting from Rev. John Henry Newman's involvement with Littlemore from the 1830s when he had built the first parish church in 1836 and converted a range of farm buildings to his College in the early 1840s. During the 19th century the social structure of the village was further cemented by the construction of two schools and a number of gentlemen's houses.	1999-12-01	1999-12-01
SSLZMFZX0015	Iffley Village	Iffley Village	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/29/downloads-for-iffley-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/79/iffley-conservation-area-overview	area-map	The ancient village of Iffley (Givetelei of the Domesday Book) occupies a rocky promontory on the east bank of the Isis, some two miles south of the centre of Oxford. Until the 19th century, the main road to Henley ran along Iffley Turn and through the village. The northern end of the old village is marked by Tree Lane (a medieval sheep-way) and the Tree Hotel, where the Old Tree Inn once stood. Towards the end of the 18th century, wealthy citizens of Oxford began to build country houses within easy reach of the city and the village expanded to the north by the addition of large houses in landscaped grounds, of which a number still remain with their heritage of fine trees. By the middle of the 19th century, the agricultural village was already acquiring its present, residential character.	1985-10-21	1969-10-06
SSLZMFZX0013	Old Headington	Old Headington	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/33/downloads-for-old-headington-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/94/old-headington-conservation-area-overview	area-map	The village, now known as Old Headington to distinguish it from the modern suburb and shopping centre, lies within the ancient bounds of the royal forest of Shotover and Stoward and has its origins in a royal manor belonging to the Saxon Kings. The boundaries of the present village are clearly defined; on the south by Cuckoo Lane; on the west by the grounds of the former Manor House estate, now John Radcliffe Hospital; on the north open agricultural land (and of course the A40), and on the east by Bury Knowle Park. Although the original royal manor house was already ruinous in medieval times and successive fires destroyed the ancient crofters cottages, many of the more substantial postmedieval stone houses and the medieval Church of St Andrew have survived.	1998-12-09	1971-01-04
SSLZMFZX0008	Headington Hill	Headington Hill	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/27/downloads-for-headington-hill-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/66/headington-hill-conservation-area-overview	area-map	Headington Hill stands to the East of the Cherwell valley, and when viewed from the west, its hillside forms a green landscape background to the historic city centre in its valley setting. The hillside also provides a number of vantage points giving good views down to the city's skyline. The northern part of the hill, between Marston Road and Headley Way and above Cuckoo Lane, comprises a residential area, which was originally laid out in late Victorian times on a grand scale but subsequently much divided. The southern part of the hill contains the public parks of Headington Hill and South Park, together with Schools and Oxford Brookes University and residential area of the historic Headington Hill hamlet.	2012-12-10	1977-10-24
SSLZMFZX0017	North Oxford Victorian Suburb	North Oxford Victorian Suburb	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/32/downloads-for-north-oxford-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/91/north-oxford-conservation-area-overview	area-map	The extension and enlargement of the North Oxford conservation area, with the inclusion of the Rawlinson Road conservation area on 16 July 1976, resulted in the creation of the consolidated North Oxford Victorian Suburb conservation area. It stretches from St Giles' in the south, to Frenchay, Staverton and Belbroughton Roads in the north; from the banks of the Oxford canal in the west, to those of the River Cherwell in the east, encompassing the essential North Oxford. Much of the area on which North Oxford now stands, formerly Walton Field and St Giles' Field, was acquired by St John's College in the 16th century. It was developed between Walton Manor and Summertown as a residential suburb of large detached and semidetached houses beginning in the 1850s with the laying out of Park Town (1853-5).	1976-07-16	1968-05-06
SSLZMFZX0009	St. Clement's And Iffley Road	St. Clement's And Iffley Road	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/36/downloads-for-st-clements-and-iffley-road-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/113/st-clements-and-iffley-road-conservation-area-overview	area-map	St Clement's and the Iffley Road lie immediately east of Magdalen Bridge and the River Cherwell and both streets form entrances to Oxford from the London direction. St Clement's Street is, in origin, an extra mural suburb of Oxford stretched out along the main road to London. The old medieval Parish Church of St Clement stood where The Plain roundabout is today. The earliest surviving buildings, such as the Old Black Horse 2nd No.27, date from the years following the 17th century Civil War. Iffley Road also owes its origin to a route to London, that via Henley. Its buildings are, however, late in date and the visual character of the area relies greatly on the presence of mature tree planting. Iffley Road mixes, in the main, two architectural styles in its houses, the stuccoed, based on classical modes, and the brick gothic normally associated with North Oxford.	1977-07-25	1977-07-25
SSLZMFZX0006	Wolvercote With Godstow	Wolvercote With Godstow	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/39/downloads-for-wolvercote-with-godstow-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/117/wolvercote-with-godstow-conservation-area-appraisal	area-appraisal	The Wolvercote and Godstow Conservation area contains three distinct districts: - Upper Wolvercote with the Church of St Peter, 19th century school and houses standing above and along Wolvercote Green - Lower Wolvercote terminating at Port Meadow with the former Paper Mill. - Godstow Abbey beyond the Trout riverside inn, was largely destroyed by fire in 1645, with only the unroofed remains of the post 15th century stone building, with wall and earthworks now surviving in the water meadows to the west, on the Thames	1985-10-21	1981-02-23
SSLZMFZX0011	Central	Central	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/26/downloads-for-central-city-and-university-conservation-area	https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/49/central-university-and-city-conservation-area-overview	area-map	The historic centre of Oxford forms one of the masterpieces of European architectural heritage. It is also a major regional commercial centre. Many of its historic buildings still function for the purpose for which they were built, and provide accommodation for the University of Oxford and its colleges. From small beginnings as a settlement in the Saxon period, Oxford grew by the 11th century into one of the largest towns in England and a major trade centre. The Norman conquest brought the construction of the Castle and the establishment of major religious houses. The infant University arose in the 12th century and gradually grew into a major force in the city's life. The Saxons' rigid street layout and the fixed line of the 13th century defensive walls, together with the floodable river valleys, largely determined the plan of the historic centre as it is today. The gentle curve of the High Street, the great market place of St Giles and the older churches, together with the post-medieval timber-framed houses, belong to the town rather than the gown. A change to the boundary was approved by the Council’s Cabinet on 29 May 2019, following public consultation. • St Thomas’: one of the earliest suburbs outside the city walls; the relationship between the city and its waterways, motor industry, and workers’ housing can be found here. The extension includes 39-42a Hythe Bridge Street; and two blocks south of Park End Street and Frideswide Square, (fronting Park End Street, Frideswide Square, the northern half of Becket Street, Hollybush Row, and 1- 5 Osney Lane). • The University Science Quarter: a physical demonstration of the university’s commitment to the promotion of scientific research within the city during the mid-19th century, and beyond. Each building in the area is of its time and designed to reflect its use, which is continuously changing as the field adapts. Changes in building styles and types is expected and encouraged in this area in order to maintain the university’s place as a world leader in scientific excellence. A draft Management Plan and Design Advice has been published for public consultation in February 2022.	2019-05-29	1971-04-05