Little Clarendon Street
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Little Clarendon Street is a short shopping street in central Oxford. It runs east-west between the foot of the Woodstock Road to the east and Walton Street to the west. It forms one of three notable streets in North Oxford off the Woodstock Road where the variety of shops and cafes make them particularly trendy and bohemian places, the other two being North Parade and South Parade. The street is sometimes nicknamed Little Trendy Street.
As of 2006, the following buildings can be found on the street (this list is not definitive):
[edit] North side (east to west):
- Lloyds Pharmacy;
- Porters Bar & Restaurant;
- Richards' Group Hairdresser's;
- Martins' Newsagent;
- Oddbins wine merchants;
- La Plaza Tapas Bar;
- Pierre Victoire Restaurant;
- Cafe Rouge Restaurant;
- Duke of Cambridge cocktail bar;
- The 1960s concrete accommodation of Somerville College;
- Sylvester's Art and Gifts;
- Uncle Sam's Vintage American Clothing store;
- Hobbs Clothing Store;
- Inspires Art and Prints shop;
- Lacy's hair salon;
- "Posh Frocks" clothing store;
- Juice sandwich shop.
[edit] South side (east to west):
- Oxford University Admissions Office;
- G&D's Ice Cream Cafe;
- Angels cocktail bar;
- Sobell Hospice Charity Shop;
- The Isis Centre (counselling centre run by Oxfordshire Mental Health NHS Trust);
- The Oxford University Offices;
- Mortons Cafe;
- A branch of Barclays Bank;
- Lizzie James women's clothing store;
- Central furniture store.
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.
