A popular restaurant in North Oxford has been made a Grade II-listed building.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has listed Gee's in Banbury Road, it emerged today.
The restaurant, which dates from Victorian times, is run by Jeremy Mogford, who also runs the Old Bank in High Street and the Old Parsonage, also in Banbury Road.
Mr Mogford took over Gee's 24 years ago, which features a conservatory built to Harry Wilkinson Moore's design in 1897, as a home for Gee’s plant and flower shop. When the business closed in the early 1980s, the future of the building looked uncertain — until Mr Mogford came up with his restaurant plan and the 90-seat restaurant opened in 1984.
The restaurant was also owned for a short while by French chef Raymond Blanc, before Mr Mogford bought back the premises.
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