Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NE OXFORD STREET
844-1/9/229 (West side)
12/03/73 Nos.1A-11, 15 AND 17 (Odd)
(Formerly Listed as:
OXFORD STREET
(West side)
Nos.1A TO 15 (Odd))

GV II

Terrace of 8 houses. 1823-5. Part of the development of Oxford
Street for John Bowyer, attorney. Later alterations. Brick
stuccoed with incised masonry joints, slate roofs, brick
stacks on the party walls. Eight houses of double-depth block.
EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellars; offset plinths,
continuous string course at first-floor level except for
slightly lower string on No.1A; continuous moulded crowning
cornice with frieze band and parapet above. No.1A altered 1990
when the former central entrance doorway on the front infilled
with a sash with glazing bars and a new doorway formed in the
south end wall, on each of the upper floors a central sash
with glazing bars (first floor 3x4 panes, second floor 3x3
panes).
Nos 3, 5 & 7 have entrance doorways to left with deep jambs
and plain rectangular fanlights; a sash with glazing bars (4x4
panes) to right of each doorway; on the first floor of each
house two tall sashes and on the second floor two short
sashes, all with glazing bars, (first floor 3x4 panes, second
floor 3x3 panes), and with projecting stone sills.
Nos 9, 11, 15 & 17 have entrance doorways to right, each with
a sash to left with lower sill; on the first floor the window
sills at the top of the first-floor string course, otherwise
all details are similar to Nos 3, 5 & 7.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8366718852

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538181

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)