33 Holywell Street appears to have been completely rebuilt in c.1850. It is now Staircase 9 of Wadham College.
It is a Grade II Listed Building (1047231). and is described as follows:
No 33 SP 5106 NE 6/196 12.1.54. II GV 2.
House. A C18-C19 front of three-storeyed stucco with rusticated stone ground floor on a stone base, a heavy moulded modillioned eaves cornice and cement-faced stacks. The ground floor has two three-light sash windows in stone frames and cills with the front doorway in between them. The doorway has a moulded stone frame with moulded pilasters a segmental arch with moulded spandrels and a dentilled cornice. The first floor has three modern sash windows with dentilled and moulded cornices. In the second floor are three sash windows in moulded and bracketed frames with glazing bars. At the back on the North East is a two-storeyed wing in brick.
The “Mr Parker” who lived at No. 33 at the time of the 1772 Survey of Oxford was the apothecary John Parker. who had been matriculated as a privileged tradesman on 27 September 1758 and was the son of the writer Samuel Parker, and grandson of the Samuel Parker who was Bishop of Oxford from 1686 until his death in 1688. John Parker married Catharine Perrot, daughter of Charles Perrot of Northleigh, and his son Richard was the father of Joseph Parker, the Oxford bookshop owner. Under his will, which was proved on 28 April 1778, John Parker ordered that “after my decease and the decease of my wife Catherine my house and the furniture in a street commonly called Holywell in the suburbs of the City of Oxford and held under the warden and scholars of Wadham College to be sold”.
The horse dealer Charles Symonds, whose stables and home had been at 30 Holywell Street, was living here by 1861. He retired from business in 1884, and on 23 February that year a forthcomng auction of household furniture at his residence here was advertised in Jackson's Oxford Journal.
By 1889 Arthur Evans and his wife Margaret rented this house, and they were here for several years.
From 1914 to 1941 this was the Oxford & County Club.
From 1947 to 1976 it was the University of Oxford Faculty of Music.
33 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
Uncertain: possibly Walter Vickery (70), an organist, with John William Hughes (40), a clerk with two children: Frederick (10) and Caroline (5). They had four servants.
1851
George Rawlinson (38), a clergyman without cure of souls, lived here with his wife Louisa (22) and their children Alice (3), George (2), and Mary (1). They had four servants: a cook, nurse, and two housemaids.
1861
Charles Symonds (46), a horse dealer, lived here with his wife (37) and his children Frederick (18), who was a student, and Georgina (17). They have three servants.
1871
Charles Symonds (56), a horse dealer, still lived here with his wife Emily (48) and their daughters Georgina (25) and Constance (21), and their three grandchildren: Archibald Munro (2), Beatrice Munro (1), and George Munro (six months). They now had six domestic servants
1881
Charles Symonds (66), a horse dealer now employing ten men, still lived here with his wife Emily (58) and three servants (a cook, housemaid, and houseboy).
1891
The householder was away on census night. The house was occupied by the butler, Richard Collins (32), and the widow called Naomi Collins (69) who was paying him a visit, is likely to have been his mother.
1901
Eugène C. Impey (70), a retired colonel of the Bengal Staff Corps, lived here with his wife Isabella (65) and his unmarried daughters Isabella (36) and Mary (34). They had three servants (a cook, parlourmaid, and housemaid).
1911
No listing.
1921
John Harvey (52) and his wife Edith (49), the Steward and Stewardess of the Oxford & County Club which was now based here, lived on the premises with their son Leonard (15) and two waitresses. Two boarders are listed as a separate household.
1939 Register
The company director Percy C. Raiment was listed here with a commercial traveller and their cook and parlourmaid.
Occupants of 33 Holywell Street listed in directories etc. |
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1772 |
Mr Parker [the apothecary John Parker] |
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1830–1846+ |
Revd John Willim Hughes, M.A. [Rector of St Clement's in 1832]; died 1849/50] |
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1851 |
George Rawlinson, Clergyman |
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1861–1884 |
Charles Symonds |
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1884 |
Wilson Clement Cruttwell, solicitor (died 9 May 1886) |
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1889 |
Arthur Evans |
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1891–1905 |
Colonel Eugène C. Impey, C.I.E. (The house was sublet to other people during this period) |
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1914–1941 |
Oxford & County Club |
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1943 |
No listing |
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1945 |
British Red Cross Society and |
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1947–1976 |
Oxford University Faculty of Music (including the Oxford University Musical Club & Union from 1954, and the Oxford University Gramophone Society 1956–1960) The Faculty also took in No. 32 next door in c.1960 |
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Today |
Part of Wadham College |
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