27 Holywell Street dates from the seventeenth/eighteenth century. It is now the Navapan Building of Harris Manchester College.
It is a Grade II Listed Building (104722), with the following description:
No 27 SP 5106 NE 6/203 12.1.54 II GV 2.
House which has the appearance of having been built in C17-C18. Three-storeyed stuccoed (?timber-framed on a rubble base) with a moulded eaves cornice, a small parapet and modern red brick stacks. On the West side are three splayed bay windows with C19 sashes in moulded wood frames with architraves. On the East side of the first floor and above the front doorway are single sash windows and in the second floor a double sash window, both in moulded wood frames with glazing bars.
Mrs Jenner lived here in 1772: she is likely to have been the widow of Robert Jenner, Regius Professor of Civil Law 1754–1767. She died at Iffley (in the house of her son-in-law, the Revd James Burton) on 20 January 1789.
By the beginning of the twentieth century Nos. 25, 26, and 27 comprised Addis Hall, and they now form the Warrington Building of Harris Manchester College.
From 1877 to 1890 this house was occupied by the widow Ellinor Newcombe and her sister Rhoda Broughton, who was a novelist.
J. R. Mallam & Son inserted an advertisement in Jackson’s Oxford Journal on 18 October 1890 listing several private residences for sale and to let, including:
27 HOLYWELL STREET, 2 Sitting Rooms, 6 Bed Rooms, Kitchen, Scullery, Servants’ Rooms, Yard, and Garden.
By the beginning of the twentieth century Nos. 25, 26, and 27 were part of Manchester College and were called Addis Hall.
27 Holywell Street in the censuses
1841
The 1841 census for Holywell does not give house numbers, but it is possible to deduce where people listed that year lived by examining directory entries between 1839 and 1842 and later censuses
Sarah Ann Chapman, described as independent, lived here with two female and one male servants.
1851
Sarah A. Chapman (69), a landowner and fundholder, still lived here with her cook and housemaid.
1861
George Mallam (27), an attorney at law, lived here with his wife Mary and one servant.
1871
Mrs Lovell (49), a widow with income from dividends, lived here with her daughter Clementine (25) and four girl boarders, plus a governess and four servants.
1881
The widowed Mrs Newcombe appears to have been away on census night, and the house was occupied by her sons Richard (15) and Harold (14), who were born in Wales. They had two servants: a kitchen maid and housemaids. (Richard died the next year, on 14 April 1882.)
1891
The house is listed as unoccupied.
1901
William Addis (56), a Church of England clergyman and college tutor, lived here with his wife Rachel (46) and his children Robina (9) and Henry (3). They had three servants (a cook, housemaid, and a manservant), and a student lodging with them. They also occupied Nos. 25 and 26 next door.
1911
Four theology students (from Yorkshire, San Francisco, Hungary, and Japan) were boarding at Nos. 25–27 (Addis Hall) with under porter William Frederick Drake (33).
1921
Lachlan Macrae (34), a lecturer at Manchester College, was living here with his wife Margaret (34) and their you son, plus a student boarder and two servants.
1939 Register
The minister of religion and college tutor Raymond M. Holt was listed here with Isabella, Francis, and Stella Holt, plus a retired admiralty clerk called Edward Thwaites and his wife Frances.
Occupants of 27 Holywell Street listed in directories etc. |
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1772 |
Mrs Jenner |
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1830–1860 |
Miss Sarah Ann Chapman |
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1861–1866 |
George Mallam |
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1871–1876 |
Revd George Francis Lovell, Vice-Principal of St Edmund Hall |
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1881–1889 |
Mrs Newcombe (with her sister, the novelist Miss Rhoda Broughton, in 1889) |
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1894–1915 |
Mrs Dallin The Revd William Addis (Master of Addis Hall at Nos. 24 & 25) |
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1921 |
Lachlan Macrae |
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1926–1930 |
Revd Henry Gow |
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1933 |
Rev. J. Cyril Flower |
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1935–1943 |
Revd Raymond V. Holt |
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1945–1952 |
Revd Herbert McLachlan |
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1954–1956 |
Revd Lancelot Austin Garrard, B.D., M.A. |
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1958–1966 |
Harry Raymond Ing, University reader in chemical pharmacology, and |
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1967–1976 |
Dudley E. Richards |
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Today |
Part of Harris Manchester College |
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