Little Clarendon Street

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Little Clarendon Street looking east (2006). Little Clarendon Street Oxford looking east 20060314.jpg
Little Clarendon Street looking east (2006).
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Location of Little Clarendon Street in Oxford
Little Clarendon Street looking west. Porters restaurant was replaced by a chain-restaurant Carluccio's, which has since closed. Little Clarendon Street Oxford looking west 20060314.jpg
Little Clarendon Street looking west. Porters restaurant was replaced by a chain-restaurant Carluccio's, which has since closed.

Little Clarendon Street is a short shopping street in northwest Oxford, England. It runs east-west between the south end of Woodstock Road opposite St Giles' Church to the east, Somerville College to the north and Walton Street to the west. One of the three principal streets in North Oxford off the Woodstock Road, the shops and cafés located there are considered bohemian; the other two streets are North Parade and South Parade. Occasionally nicknamed Little Trendy Street, [1] [2] its reputation was already apparent in the 1960s. [3]

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Buildings

As of 2006, the following buildings can be found on the street (this list is not definitive):

North side (east to west)
George and Davis' Ice Cream Cafe on Little Clarendon Street. G&Ds on little clarenden st.JPG
George and Davis' Ice Cream Café on Little Clarendon Street.
South side (east to west)

Along its south side the most prominent building is the 1960s University Central Offices, which in the minds of many people is an eyesore that damaged the character of the otherwise stately Wellington Square.[ citation needed ]

The Porters Bar & Restaurant, formerly at 1–2 Little Clarendon Street, but frequently changing hands, and now occupied by Carluccio's, appeared in the BBC television programme The Restaurant . [5]

On the wall of Taylor's Delicatessen on the south-side of Little Clarendon Street, a miniature model door and window have been installed by Cambridge-based art project Dinky Doors. [6]

See also

References

  1. "Oxford's Pubs and Bars". Daily Information . Oxford. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
  2. "Little Clarendon Street". Jericho Echo . Retrieved 7 May 2008.
  3. Snow, Peter (1991). Oxford Observed. John Murray. p. 122. ISBN   0-7195-4707-5.
  4. "Demijohn – The Liquid Deli". UK. Archived from the original on 30 November 2007.
  5. Hartford, Maggie (26 August 2007). "TV restaurant goes out of business". Oxford Mail . Retrieved 7 May 2008.
  6. Eastgate, Tess (30 May 2019). "The Hidden Art of Oxford: Dinky Doors". The Oxford Student. Retrieved 28 June 2020.

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