Nos. 19 and 20 Long Wall Street form one building, dating from the eighteenth century. The sash windows date from the eighteenth–nineteenth century and have shutters on the ground floor.
The pair of houses is jointly Grade II listed (1325542). They are now part of New College, and in 1963 David Roberts joined them laterally to No. 18 to form student rooms, entered from the south, so their doors to the street is no longer used. In 2016 planning permission was granted to New College to create a pair of shared cluster flats at 18–20 Long Wall Street (16/03209/FUL).
Three Rigaud siblings occupied this house as well as No. 18 to the south in the 1880s.
Historic photograph of 19 and 20 Long Wall Street, when the separate houses were painted in different colours
Occupants of 19 & 20 Long Wall Street listed in directories etc. |
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No. 19 |
No. 20 |
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1841–1861 |
No listing |
No listing |
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1871 |
Possibly already linked with No. 18, |
John Garlick |
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1880–1889 |
Jointly occupied with No. 18 to the south Major General Gibbs Rigaud (by 1880 to 1885) Stephen Rigaud Miss Rigaud, their only surviving sister (to c. 1889) |
David Hughes (1881) Mrs David Hughes or William Richings, plumber |
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1891 |
Nos. 18 and 19 occupied by the caretaker Robert Westall in 1891 |
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1899–1901 |
Walter Westell |
Mrs Banwell (1899) John Banwell (1901) |
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1911–1914 |
No listing |
Miss Eleanor Martin |
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1927 |
No listing |
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1928 |
Frederick A. Goddard |
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1933 |
B. Goodall |
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1935 |
Mrs Dorothy Lewis |
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1936–1945 |
William Charles Rudd |
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1947–1954 |
William Jennings Permission for conversion |
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1956–1964 |
No listing |
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1966 |
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1967–1976 |
No listing |
Ian L. Jennings |
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At 19 & 20 Long Wall Street today |
New College annexe |
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19 & 20 Long Wall Street in the censuses
1841, 1851, 1861
Nos. 19 and 20 not listed in these censusus.
1871
No. 19
Not listed, but probably linked with No. 18 as in later censuses, in which case the occupant of both was Robert Faucett (44), a clergyman without cure of souls, and his servant.No. 20
John Garlick (30), a college servant, lived here with his wife Catherine (32) and his son John (1). They had a 13-year-old servant girl.
1881
No. 19
Gibbs Rigaud (60), a retired major general, and his brother John (59), a clergyman without cure of souls, both bachelors, lived here. They had two servants. They are jointly listed at Nos. 18 and 19.No. 20
David Hughes (77), a lodging house keeper, lived here with his wife Anne (63).
1891
No. 19
Walter Westell (29), a college servant and caretaker, lived here with his wife Emma (35). They are jointly listed at Nos. 18 and 19.No. 20
Anne Hughes (73), a widowed lodging house keeper, lived here with one boarder and two general servants.
1901
No. 19
Walter Westell (39), a college servant, lived here with his wife Emma (45).No. 20
John Banwell (66), a widowed dairyman, lived here alone.
1911
No. 19
No listing.No. 20
Eleanor Martin (68), a retired boarding-house keeper, lived here alone.