CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save the last pub in New Marston are celebrating after the building was added to a list of the city’s heritage assets.

The Somerset pub was one of 15 buildings and spaces in the Oxford which had nominations approved this week - ranging from churches and 19th century cottages to part of a historic lane and an Oxford college's playing field.

They will all now by included in the Oxford Heritage Asset Register, which is a list of buildings, structures, features or places that make a contribution to the character of the city.

Members of Oxford City Council's planning committee voted unanimously to add the 1930s pub building in Marston Road at a meeting on Tuesday.

The Save Our Somerset group, which nominated the building, are hoping the inclusion of the pub will stave off plans to change its use.

Proposals were revealed in February to turn the building, which closed in 2014, into an education centre and cafe run by Islamic organisation the Wilaya Trust though there has been no formal moving forward of the scheme.

A petition to save the last area's last local has been signed by more than 700 people and 200 turned up to a pop up pub event in April.

Wendy Twist, from the campaign group, said: "We are absolutely delighted that it has gone onto the register and it's another string to our bow in ensuring we save the pub.

She added: "It shows how valued The Somerset is as a historic landmark in Oxford and will help us if an application ever goes in."

David Henwood, vice chairman of the planning committee, said: “The register is an opportunity for the public and councillors to nominate buildings that have contributed to our heritage.It doesn’t necessarily protect them from development but it does mean the building is taken into consideration.”

Other additions include Oriel College's playing fields, which were part of the historic endowment of Bartlemas Hospital, transferred to Oriel College in 1329, and part of the historic Cuckoo Lane.

Thought to be more than 1,000 years old, it stretches from St Clement’s to Old Headington and was originally a shortcut for Headington residents who were travelling on foot to Oxford. Councillors also voted unanimously to put All Saints Church on Lime Walk, Rose Hill Methodist Church, eighth Oxford Scout Hut in New Headington, which was formally known as All Saints Mission Chapel and the Hockmore Cottages on Bartholomew Road on the list.

Historic houses 63 Henley Avenue,18 Windsor Street and 6 Perrin Street, 20 Villiers Lane, as well as 50, 62 and 64 Rose Hill, and All Saints Vicarage, Old Road were also included.