Description

OXFORD ROW
656-1/30/1171

Nos.11 AND 12 and attached railings and vaults (Formerly Listed as: LANSDOWN ROAD (West side) Nos 1-12 (consec) Oxford Row)
12/06/50

GV II

Two houses, now flats. c1775-1778. Built by Thomas Warr Atwood, and probably designed by him.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to fronts, rubble below basement windows to right (No.12), ashlar to right side (No.12), rubble to rear of each house, double pile parapeted mansard roofs, to No.12 hipped to right, artificial slate to front and rear, each with two ashlar stacks rising from coped party wall to right, to house to left (No.11) partially rebuilt in reconstituted stone to front and with some early clay pots to rear, to right (No.12) with small ashlar stack above front slope on coped gable wall to right. Staircases to rear.
EXTERIOR: Each house has three storeys, attic and basement, three window front. First floor to left (No.11) has three plate glass horned sashes in splayed ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices rising from lowered stone sills, second floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has to left two plate glass horned 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, one step to pennant paved crossover with cast iron footscraper. Basement has one plate glass horned sash in beaded reveal with timber sill to left, one six/six sash in plain reveal with stone sill to right, C20 plank screen with door infilling under sashes. Band course over ground floor, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. House to right (No.12) has to first floor three plate glass horned sashes in splayed ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices rising from lowered stone sills, to centre and right with wrought iron balconettes, second floor has three plate glass horned sashes with further fixed panes inserted over in ovolo moulded architraves rising from lowered stone sills. Ground floor has three plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with splayed jambs with stone sills. Basement has two six/six sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills, extension in area with pennant paved roof has C20 door, no area steps. Two single dormers with plate glass horned sashes. Band course over ground floor with incised lettering to right `OXFORD-ROW¿, sill band to first now cut through by lowered windows, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Right side to Julian Road has six panel door with fielded panels in chamfered plain reveal with moulded cornice over, two small C20 windows to ground floor and first floor. Band course, first floor sill band and upper moulding of cornice continued from front elevation. Rear elevations of both houses partially visible each have two/two horned sashes, twelve has six/six sashes to staircase and small lean-to extension. Lead hopperhead and downpipe at junction of houses to front, lead hopperhead in corresponding position to rear.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings with lifting section to No.12 with shaped heads on painted limestone bases.
HISTORY: Built on land then the site of two cottages conveyed to Thomas Warr Atwood by the Revd. Sir Peter Rivers Gay 25 march 1775 on ninety-nine year lease commencing 25 December 1774; Atwood to build two houses within three years of date of conveyance. Ground only sufficient to build No.12 and four-fifths of No.11; remainder of No.11 on ground already held by Thomas Warr Atwood, same parcel of land as remainder of Oxford Row (qv); this was leased by Atwood in 1773 (Council Minutes 02.03.1773). 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 architect whose elevations are an excellent example of the English Palladian tradition as applied to street architecture.' (Colvin). Freeholds eventually united in City ownership, 1949. (Bath City Record Office, Deed Packet: 2659; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: London: 1948-: 35 AND 159; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840: London: 1978-: 77 ).

Listing NGR: ST7492965417

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673336

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