Latitude: 51.7622 / 51°45'44"N
Longitude: -1.2677 / 1°16'3"W
OS Eastings: 450637
OS Northings: 207316
OS Grid: SP506073
Mapcode National: GBR 7XL.JBB
Mapcode Global: VHCXM.ZY6Y
Plus Code: 9C3WQP6J+VW
Entry Name: 2-14, Plantation Road
Listing Date: 7 October 2008
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1392948
English Heritage Legacy ID: 493713
ID on this website: 101392948
Location: Walton Manor, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2
County: Oxfordshire
District: Oxford
Electoral Ward/Division: North
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Oxford
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Oxford St Philip and St James with St Margaret
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Building
612/0/10170 PLANTATION ROAD
07-OCT-08 2-14
II
BUILDING: Terrace of seven cottages
DATE: 1884
ARCHITECT: Henry Wilkinson Moore for the Oxford Cottage Improvement Society. Built by John Money of 122 Kingston Road
MATERIALS: Red brick with blue header patterning and ashlar dressings; half-timbered gables with variously patterned brick infill, wooden bargeboards and terracotta finials; plain tile roofs; brick ridge stacks.
PLAN: Linear row.
FAÇADE: Terrace of 7 cottages of 1884 in Domestic Revival style. 2 storeys, with stone lintel forming almost continuous first-floor band. Seven projecting gabled bays with paired doorways between. Each bay has 3-light ground-floor window with sashes and stone mullions, and 4-light first-floor casement with shaped wooden brackets to moulded gable bressumer. All windows with wooden glazing bars. Stone sill strings. Brick patterning and single lights between gables, over plank doors with narrow strip of tiny over-lights. All doors original except for No. 12. Alterations to rear include recent lean-to to No. 2, and large C20 dormer/roof conversion to No. 12. Original first-floor casements survive except to No. 12.
INTERIORS: Not seen.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Each house has a 2 metre wide front garden, these being separated from the pavement by a low brick wall.
HISTORY: Before Oxford's 1832 enclosure Plantation Road comprised not a single road but two separate lanes servicing small `old' enclosures that had been laid out on part of the Tagg's Garden plantation. The street is narrow and of varied character, with the later housing, mostly of the mid C19 to 1900, being, like numbers 2-14, towards the western end. Numbers 2-14 form a brick terrace of workers¿ cottages of 1884 designed by by H.W. Moore for the Oxford Cottage Improvement Society and built by John Money of 122 Kingston Road.
SOURCES: T. Hinchcliffe, North Oxford (1992); Oxford City Engineers' Archives OS 919
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: This terrace of 1884 is of special architectural interest for its success in adapting the picturesque detail of the Domestic Revival style to a small-scale urban context. Repeated gabled bays provide an overall simplicity of design but a variety of blue header and brick infill patterning provide intricacy of detail. The whole is held together by deep stone lintels forming a strong first-floor band. Fenestration with small panes and wooden glazing bars, and simple plank doors with distinctively narrow over-lights emphasise the small scale and humble character. The street frontages are little altered, and the whole terrace merits being added to the list at grade II.
This terrace of 1884 is of special architectural interest for its success in adapting the picturesque detail of the Domestic Revival style to a small-scale urban context. Repeated gabled bays provide an overall simplicity of design but a variety of blue header and brick infill patterning provide intricacy of detail. The whole is held together by deep stone lintels forming a strong first-floor band. Fenestration with small panes and wooden glazing bars, and simple plank doors with distinctively narrow over-lights emphasise the small scale and humble character. The street frontages are little altered, and the whole terrace is designated at grade II.
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