No. 40: Linacre College annexe
The main part of No. 40 dates from about 1600, while the flat-roofed single-storey wing shown on the right of the above photograph dates from the eighteenth century. It is a Grade II* listed building (ref. 1485/511), and the only house in St Giles Street that is set back from the road with a proper front garden.
In 1772 a survey of every house in the city was taken in consequence of the Mileways Act of 1771. No. 40 was then occupied by Vincent Shortland, and its frontage measuring 17 yards 1 feet 6 inches. Shortland had probably inherited this house from the Riggins family, along with their timber-yard on the site of Nos. 37 and 37A, and he seems to have lived here until 1789, as a house in St Giles “late in occupation of Vincent Shortland” is advertised to let in Jackson's Oxford Journal of 10 October that year. He thus probably lived in this house during his first term as Mayor in 1780/1, when he advertised a reward for the return of a horse stolen from his St Giles home in Jackson's Oxford Journal of 27 August 1781. In 5 May 1790 Shortland was again advertising a house to rent, late in occupation of Mrs Stuart.
The 1841 census shows the Revd Richard Tiddeman living in the house with his wife and their five children: Emma, Spencer, Augusta, Maria, and Lydia, plus four servants. In 1851 Lydia Mallam, a widowed house proprietor of 56, living here with her four daughters and two sons, plus a cook and a housemaid; she was still here in 1861 with her two eldest daughters. In 1881 the house was occupied by Edmund S. Ffoulkes, the Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, and his wife and daughter, plus two servants.
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Occupants of 40 St Giles' Street
listed in censuses and directories
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| 1841–6 | Rev. Richard Philip Goldworthy Tiddeman |
| 1851–69 | Mrs Lydia Mallam (Misses Mallam only in 1869) |
| 1871 | Mrs Wotton |
| 1872 | Captain William Frederick Foxcroft Jones |
| 1875–89 | Rev. Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes Fellow of Jesus and Vicar of St Mary's |
| 1890–5 | Vacant |
| 1896 | H.M. Dowson |
| 1897–1926 | J. Bywater-Ward, B.A., M.D. (Mrs Bywater-Ward only from 1902) |
| 1928–32 | Edmund Cecil Bevers Surgeon |
| 1934–45 | Paul Norman Blake Odgers University Reader & Demonstrator in Human Anatomy |
| 1947–62 | Trevor Braby Heaton |
| 1964–1988 | John B. Bamborough Principal of Linacre College |
| Present | Linacre College house |