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Nos. 5 & 6 St Giles' Street

No. 5

The 1841 census shows the college servant George Cox living here with Ellen Cox (probably his wife) and their two lodgers and servant. He died at the age of 58 on 11 August 1842, and his death notice stated that he had been a faithful servant of St John's College for forty years.

At the time of the 1851 census the St John's College servant John Colcutt (39) lived here with his wife Emma and their four children, plus their servant, and the Misses Mary and Frances Gilbert, a clergyman's daughters, lived in another part of the house. In 1861 he was still here, now described as the college brewer, with his wife and two of their children, plus a lodger, and in 1871 they were here with their grandson and servant.

No. 6

The 1841 census shows John/Jonathan Cox (c.60), the Manciple of St John's College, living here with Elizabeth Cox and his two daughters, plus their servant. In 1851 he was a widower of 70 living here with just a servant.

The 1861 census shows the cook James Merritt (36) living here with his wife Elizabeth and their four children, plus their servant.

By 1871 the college cook & manciple Thomas Lucas (31) lived here with his wife Annie and their servant.

Nos. 5 & 6 were demolished in c.1879 to make way for the southern part of the extension to St John's College.

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Nos. 7 & 8 St Giles' Street

Nos. 7 & 8 were described thus in Jackson's Oxford Journal of 4 May 1878 in the notice of a forthcoming auction (which did not in the event take place, as the property was almost immediately otherwise disposed of):

No. 7, St. Giles's-street, Oxford, recently occupied by Mr. Castell, baker and confectioner, contains entrance passage, front shop, bakehouse (with large ovens), front sitting room, with kitchen, scullery, &c, on the ground floor; 4 rooms on the first floor, 4 rooms on second floor, 2 w.c.'s, flour room, man's room and loft over bakehouse, ample cellarage in the basement, pump and well of excellent water, stable (with loft over), and other outbuildings in the Garden at the back, having a frontage to the street of about 27 feet, and extending a depth of about 139 ft.

No. 8, St Giles's-street, Oxford, as now in the occupation of Mr. Simmonds, coal merchant, on a repairing Lease, of which about 9 years are unexpired, at the moderate rental of 80l. per annum, is approached through a gateway entrance, and contains 3 sitting rooms, kitchen, and offices, on ground floor; large drawing room, 2 bed rooms, and w.c., on 1st floor; sitting room and 2 bed rooms on 2nd floor. there is also a bed room over the kitchen, and a living room, larder, and cellarage, in the basement; three-stall stable, with large wood and coal sheds, and other outbuildings in the yard at the back having a frontage of about 25ft., and extending a depth of 127ft.

The above valuable property is held by Lease under Oriel College, Oxford, for the residue of a term of 20 years from 25th March, 1868, at a Ground Rent of £50 per annum.

No. 7

The 1841 census shows the confectioner Robert Drewitt (c.40) living here with Joseph Drewitt (60), who was a baker, William Drewitt (11), and Ann Fowler (19), plus their servant, and a confectioner's apprentice and servant.

By the time of the 1851 census Richard Castell (41), described as a master pastry cook employing one man, lived here with his wife Maria and their two daughters, plus two servants, and two other ladies occupied separate premises in the house. The situation was the same in 1861, and a lady called Mrs Williams lived in another part of the house with her granddaughter and a nurse. He was still here as a widower in 1871 with his two daughters and a lodger. He had moved out by May 1878, as the premises were vacant at the time of the above-mentioned sale.

The 1881 census shows John Payne (46), a bootmaker who employed two men, living here with his wife Hannah and their four children.

At the time of the 1891 census the painter & decorator Henry Smith (74) lived here with his wife Rosa (50), who was a milliner, and their son, plus a servant girl.

No. 8

The 1841 census shows the butcher Thomas Tustin living here with Hannah Tustin (both aged 68) and his son Samuel (34), also described as a butcher, and their servant. Thomas Tustin died on 23 March 1844. The 1851 census shows his son Samuel Calcutt Tustin as the master butcher (employing one man) living here with his wife Ann and their two daughters, plus two servants, and an annuitant aged 66 lived in another part of the house. The situation was the same in 1861. Samuel Calcutt Tustin took his life in the coach house of No. 8 on 18 December 1867.

The 1871 census shows the coal merchant William Simmonds (42) living here with his wife Amelia and their three children. Amelia died in March 1878 and at the time of the 1881 census Simmonds was here with a new wife, Grace Adela, and their baby son, plus one servant. He and his second wife were still here with their son and their servant in 1891.

Nos. 7 & 8 were demolished in 1899 to make way for the northern part of the extension to St John's College.