30 Cornmarket
No. 30 is built of ashlar stone in neo-classical style with a Dutch gable, and was refronted in 1904 to the design of Herbert Quinton. It is known as Elliott House after Edwin Litchfield Elliott (a shoe manufacturer and leather merchant) and his family who lived here in the second half of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth. (In 1851, Elliott’s shop had been at 35 Cornmarket.)
Until 1912, when the shop next door was rebuilt, Treadwell Passage ran down the north side of this building.
No. 30 was bought by St Michael & All Saints Charities in 1985.
In the censuses
1841
William Stevens (55), a fruiterer, lives over the shop with Mary (65), and with another couple called Charles & Mary Lister and their three children. They have one male and one female servant.
1851
William Bowness (24), a fruiterer, and his wife Ann (22) live over the shop, together with one house servant and one shopman.
1861
The shop is occupied by Edwin Litchfield Elliot (36), born in Northampton and described as a boot maker employing 15 men, ten women, and two boys. He is living over the shop with his Oxford-born wife Matilda (39) and his sons John (8), Joseph (6), William (4), Christopher (2), and an unnamed baby of one month. They have a house servant and nursemaid, and also living with them were a monthly nurse for the new baby and a shopwoman.
1881
The building is listed as uninhabited, indicating that the whole of the premises was now used as a shop and manufactory.
Occupants of 30 Cornmarket listed in directories etc. |
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Date |
30 |
30½ / Upstairs |
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1839–1846 |
William Stevens |
No listing |
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1852 |
William Bowness |
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1861, 1867 |
E. L. Elliott
Christopher Frank Elliott |
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1872–1880 |
Mrs Chadwell, Cutler Chadwell & Long |
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1890–1911 |
Reuben Wenborn, Cutler + Millar & Nasmyth, Architects, in 1899 |
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1914 |
Arthur Jessel, Solicitor |
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1921 |
Henry Ernest Tipping, Estate Agent |
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1928–1960 |
Johnson Bros (Dyers) Ltd. |
Oxford Optical Co. Henry Ernest Tipping, Estate Agent (1935, 1936) Gilman & Soame Ltd (incorporating Hills & Saunders), Photographers (1947–1960) |
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1962–1967 |
Bollom Ltd, |
Oxford Optical Co. Ltd |
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1968–1970 |
Bateman & Partners Ltd, Ophthalmic Opticians |
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1972–1976 |
Bateman & Partners Ltd, Ophthalmic Opticians |
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1980–2006 |
Bateman’s Opticians |
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2007–2008 |
Lune Bleu |
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2009–2010 |
Octopus |
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2011 |
Pylones |
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