91: Part of Old Bank Hotel
No. 91 dates from about 1800. It does not have a proper shop frontage downstairs, because originally it was a private house, and then a bank until 1985.
It is a Grade II listed building (ref. 1485/361)
In 1772 a survey of every house in the city was taken in consequence of the Mileways Act of 1771. No. 91 was then in the occupation of a Mrs Hobson, and its frontage measured 12 yards 2 feet 0 inches.
At the time of the 1861 census, this house was occupied by a clergyman, William B. Lanes, and his wife Frances, plus a cook and housemaid.
The 1881 census shows Henry Parr Mallam, a surgeon, living here with his wife, four children, and mother-in-law, plus a cook, nurse, housemaid, and page; in 1901 he was a widower, and still had four servants despite the fact that he had three grown-up daughters living at home.
In about 1908 Oxford’s branch of the Union of London & Smiths Bank opened here. This was taken over by the National Provincial Bank of England in 1918, so that it became the National Provincial and Union Bank of England; this in turn acquired Messrs Coutts & Co. in 1920.
In the late 1960s the National Provincial and Coutts were taken over by the National Westminster Bank, and for a short time there were three branches of the NatWest on this side of the High: the former District Bank at Nos. 86–87, the former National Provincial here at No. 91, and the main, original National Westminster at Nos. 120–122.
| Occupiers of 91 High Street | |
| 1846 | William A. Greenhill, M.D. |
| 1866–1905 | Henry
Parr Mallam Surgeon / medical officer to the workhouse and certifying fctry. surg. |
| 1908–1968 | The
Union of London & Smiths Bank Limited later National Provincial & Union Bank of England Ltd later National Provincial Bank Ltd |
| 1970–1975 | National Westminster Bank Ltd. |
| 1993–2005 | PDC Copyprint / Max Print |
| 2006–present | Part of Old Bank Hotel next door |