13 Pembroke St

Pembroke Street is defined by a series of seventeenth and eighteenth-century townhouses that break from the monumental, collegiate architecture found throughout much of central Oxford. Unlike the rigid, planned grids of the city's medieval burh, this street follows an older, irregular alignment once dictated by the locations of early parish churches. These houses stand as residential survivors, representing a period when the area was a center for civic and commercial life long before the neighborhood was reshaped by larger institutional developments.