36 Cornmarket Street: Itsu (former Northgate Tavern)
This building is in the parish of St Michael-at-the-Northgate Church.
Earlier building on this site (to 1907)
For leases on the former property on this site granted by Oxford City Council from 1606 to1674, see H. E. Salter, Oxford City Properties, pp. 241–243. After that date it was united with Bocardo gaol and became the residence of the gaoler.
There was a pub in the former building on this site from at least 1777: see table and census below for the known landlords.
(1) Granby’s Head / Marquis of Granby's Head / Marquis of Granby by 1777 to at least 1873
(2) Leopold Arms by 1880 to 1906, when the old building was pulled down:
photograph of excavations on the site in October 1906
The 1772 Survey of Oxford lists either a Mr Terry or a Mr Burnill immediately to the north of No. 37, and the wide frontage of the building (12yds 1ft 4in) suggests this could be the Granby's Head pub.
Present building (from 1907)
In 1907 No. 36 was rebuilt as two properties by Kingerlee from designs prepared by Messrs J. R. Wilkins, with a pub (the North Gate Tavern) on the left at No. 36, and a shop on the right at No. 36A.
The photograph (Historic England CC72/02293) shows this building when it was brand new, with the sign of the Oxford Brewery Ltd over the Northgate Tavern and that of Rudge Whitworth over the cycle shop on the right:
This photograph shows the Northgate Tavern in 1968.
By 1998 the two shops had been converted into one.
Occupants of 36 Cornmarket Street listed in directories etc. |
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Date |
No. 36 (left) |
No. 36A (right) |
1777–1877 |
Granby’s Head / Marquis of Granby's Head / Landlords (not subject to 19C university wine licence): Richard Burnell (1791) |
T. Collinson |
1880–1907 |
Leopold Arms Landlords: Mrs Hebborn (1880) |
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1909 |
Northgate Tavern |
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c.1910 |
Rebuilt as a pub and a shop |
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1911–1921 |
Northgate Tavern or Hotel Some Landlords: |
Rudge-Whitworth Ltd. |
1928–1947 |
Millets (Broughton) Ltd, Clothiers E. G. Milletts & Co., Clothiers |
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1952–1969 |
Oxford & District Co-operative Society This part of the shop is described as It was separate from 35 to the north until 1964, |
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1970–1971 |
Music Centre Record Dealers |
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1972 |
Vacant (the pub probably being altered into a shop) |
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1973–1980 |
Martin Ford Ltd |
Harlequin Record Shop |
1981 |
Our Price Records |
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1986 |
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1988 |
Jean Jeanie |
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1993 |
West World Leather |
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1996 |
Jean Factory |
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1998–2013 |
The Works remainder books |
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2013–present |
Itsu |
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Former pub at 36 Cornmarket Street in the censuses
1841
John Brightwell (30), victualler, lived here at this (unnamed) pub with Jane (25) and Charles (twelve months) and Eliza and Bryan Brightwell (both 15). There are three male servants and another boy of 15 in the household.
1851
Frederic Lipscomb (39), a widowed publican, lived here at this (unnamed) pub with his schoolboy son Frederic (10) and an ostler.
1861
Thomas Goodger (55), publican, lived here at the Granby’s Head with his wife Sarah (57) and their granddaughter Sarah Jane (10): all three were born in Leicestershire. A sawyer was lodging with them.
1871
Richard Coles (35), a jointer, lived here at the Marquis of Granby with his wife Harriet (35) and their children Ernest (11), Edgar (9), Arthur (7), Albert (2), and Harry (six months).
There was also a second household here comprising Richard Symm (39), a musician, his wife Martha (39), and their children Richard (13), Clara (11), Alice (9), Albert (7), Christopher (5), Henrietta (3), and E. Maud (2).
1881
Charles Lovelock (49), inn keeper, lived here at the Leopold Arms with his wife Emma (47) and daughters Mary (22) and Juley (eleven months). They had one servant (a cook).
1891
Charles Spiers (35), licensed victualler, lived here at the Leopold Arms with his wife Mary Ann (35) and their daughter Edith (6).
1901
Thomas W. Morgan (36), taverner & blacksmith, lived here at the Leopold Arms with his wife Sarah (36) and his children Albert (8) and Lilian (5). They had a 17-year-old servant girl.
Rebuilt in c.1905
1911
George Richard Boreham (38), licensed victualler, lived here at the Northgate Tavern in six rooms with his wife Agnes (38) and their son Sydney (8). They had one servant, and a music-hall artiste called Fred Maitland was staying with them