Description

OXFORD ROW
656-1/30/1170

No.10 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 with C20 alterations. Probably designed by Thomas Warr Atwood, who certainly developed them, see below.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, rubble to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, artificial slate to front and rear, with two ashlar stacks rising from coped party wall to left. Staircase to front.
EXTERIOR: Thee storeys, attic and basement, three window front. First floor has three plate glass sashes in splayed ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices rising from lowered stone sills, second floor has three plate glass sashes in ovolo moulded architraves rising from stone sills and small casement window to right. Ground floor has to left two plate glass sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills, to right six panel door with flush beaded, fielded and glazed panels in stone doorcase with cyma moulded architrave on flat surround with moulded brackets to moulded cornice, small two pane window to right of door, one step to pennant paved crossover with cast iron footscraper. Basement has two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, C20 plank screen with door infilling under crossover, C20 area steps. Double dormer with plate glass horned sashes. Band course over ground floor, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Rear elevation partially visible has six/six sashes to first and second floors, one double and one single dormer with plate glass sashes.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads on limestone bases.
HISTORY: These houses were developed on Council land by Thomas Warr Atwood, who obtained the ground in 1773 (Council Minutes 2 March 1773). They are standard Palladian designs of 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: ST7493165408

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673335

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