Description

OXFORD ROW
656-1/30/1161

No.1 and attached railings and vaults (Formerly Listed as: LANSDOWN ROAD (West side) Nos 1-12 (consec) Oxford Row)
12/06/50

GV II

House, now flats. c1775. Possibly designed and certainly developed by Thomas Warr Atwood, see below.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front and left side, rubble below basement windows, parapeted mansard roof, Welsh slate, has small ashlar stack rising from front slope to centre left, long stack to right rising from party wall and shared with No.2 Oxford Row (qv), stack to rear left with early clay pots rising from coped party wall with No.19 Alfred Street (qv).
PLAN: House at corner of Oxford Row and Alfred Street has entrance front to Oxford Row with details to match Oxford Row houses, to left side elevation to Alfred Street has details to match Alfred Street houses.
EXTERIOR: Entrance front has three storeys, attic and basement, four window front. First floor has three nine/nine horned sashes and similar six/six sash to left in ovolo moulded architraves rising from stone sills and with friezes and cornices, three to right splayed and with sills lowered. Second floor has four six/six horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves rising from stone sills, three to right splayed. Ground floor has three six/six horned sashes, to left in plain reveal with stone sill, to right in splayed reveals with stone sills. Door to centre of six panels, flush beaded, fielded and glazed with fanlight in later semicircular headed flat surround with splayed reveal, pennant paved crossover. Basement has to left one six pane former sash in partially blocked window with wrought iron bars with shaped heads in plain reveal with stone sill, similar window in splayed reveal to right, C20 door to right and four panel door under crossover, pennant paved bridge over area and C20 area steps, one window opening and one doorway to vaults. Single dormer with six/six horned sash and double dormer with six/six sashes. Band course over ground floor now cut into by door surround, with incised street name OXFORD ROW to left, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Lead hopperhead and downpipe attached to right. Elevation to Alfred Street three window range as 19 Alfred Street (qv) but without door, with six/six sash in splayed reveal with stone sill, blocked doorway and three pane fixed light above extension with C20 window in basement area, one doorway to vaults, incised street name ALFRED STREET on band course over ground floor to right, and one double and one single dormer with two/two horned sashes. Building largely enclosed and not visible to rear.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads on limestone bases. Wrought iron bar with anti-intruder spikes attached from railings to ground floor right, wrought iron bar attached over area steps adjacent to gate to left.
HISTORY: These houses were developed on Council land by Thomas Warr Atwood, who obtained the ground in 1773 (Council Minutes 2 February 1773). They are standard Palladian designs for the 1770's, and could be the work of Atwood, of John Wood the Younger, or of Thomas Jelly; but the evidence suggests that Atwood is the most likely. `Atwood was a competent though conservative architect whose elevations are excellent examples of the English Palladian tradition as applied to street architecture' (Colvin).
SOURCES: W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1948), 35 and 159; H. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840 (1978), 77.

Listing NGR: ST7494365301

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673325

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