Listed Building History: 10 St Andrew’s Road
No. 10 St Andrew’s Road, next door to the White Hart pub, is the first in a row of four houses dating from around 1700. It is built of coursed rubble and has a roof of red tiles.
St Andrew’s Road is labelled “Highe Streete” on the 1605 map of Headington, and probably remained the main shopping street of Headington village until the London Road was cut through the fields near the end of the eighteenth century, making the present Old High Street more important.
The engraving on the right by G. Hollis shows the house in 1813, when it had three dormer windows.
Digby Latimer, who became Lord of the Manor of Heddington in 1845 after the death of his father, Edward Latimer of Headington House, moved to this house in 1844 when he got married. The Headington Rate Book for 1850 shows that he rented the house from John Tew (the farmer and publican who owned the White Hart) and that it had a rateable value of £13–10-0 and a gross estimated rental of £18. The 1851 census lists Digby Latimer, a barrister not in actual practice aged 43, living here with his wife Harriet and her sister and aunt, plus two visitors and two servants. He was a Churchwarden at St Andrew’s from 1850 to 1864, when he and his wife moved into Unity House in St Andrew’s Lane with his elder sister Mary.
At the time of the 1881 census 10 St Andrew’s Road was occupied by James Patrick Clarke, a Clerk in the Royal Engineers Department, and his wife Mary Anne (both aged 68), and one servant. Ten years later, the 1891 census shows that their unmarried daughter, Miss M. E. B. Clarke, then aged aged 50, had come to live with them. By 1896 Mr and Mrs Clarke were both dead, but their daughter remained in the house and in 1897, as Digby Latimer half a century before, became Churchwarden of St Andrew’s.
The 1911 census shows Miss M. E. B. Clarke (70) living alone in the house with two servants.
After Miss Clarke’s death in 1926, the house was occupied by Maurice Pontin. Miss M. F. Moore lived there in the 1930s and 1940s; Dr & Mrs Eric Peet in the 1950s; and Mrs Dupuis in the 1960s.
Listed Building reference: 1485/55
