105: Meller Merceux Gallery
No. 105 dates from the seventeenth or eighteenth century.
It is a Grade II listed building (ref. 1485/382).
At the time of the 1851 census Frederick Bessant, the bootmaker here, lived over the shop with his wife and two young children, a servant, and a student lodger. He was still here in 1861.
The 1881 census shows Richard Chaundy (a hairdresser and newsagent) living over this shop with his wife Susannah, four of their children, and a domestic servant. Susannah later kept a university lodging house here, and was still living privately above the premises in 1901.
An Oriel College plan of 1814 (right) shows that C. J. Sadler at No. 104 next door then also had this shop at No. 105.
Going back to the Survey of Oxford of 1772, the two shops were then jointly occupied by Mrs Horseman.
| Occupiers of 105 High Street | |
| 1839–1876 | Frederick
Bessant Boot & shoemaker |
| 1880–1905 | Richard Chaundy Hairdresser & newsagent (1880–1887) Mrs Richard Chaundy Hairdresser (1888) Stationer & Tobacconist (1889–1894) University lodging house (1895–1905) |
| 1906–1927 | Bartlett
& Carter Breeches makers and tailors |
| 1928–1931 | Thomas
R. Foat Tailor |
| 1932–1934 | Bartlett & Carter Tailors |
| 1935–1971 | Achille Serre Ltd Dyers |
| 1973–1976+ | Part of No. 104 next door: Sanders of Oxford Ltd |
| By 1993–2002 | Chancellors Estate Agents |
| 2003–2007 | Glasshouse Fashion |
| 2008–2009 | Vacant |
| 2010– | Meller Merceux Gallery |