Description

OXFORD ROW
656-1/30/1164

No.4 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. Probably designed by Thomas Warr Atwood, who certainly developed them.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, painted to basement, not visible to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh slate to front, not visible to rear, with two stacks, to front rebuilt in reconstituted stone, not visible to rear, rising from coped party wall to left.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three window front. First floor has three nine/nine horned sashes in splayed ovolo moulded architraves rising from lowered stone sills and with friezes and cornices. Second floor has three six/six horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves rising from stone sills. Ground floor has to left two six/six horned sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills, to right six panel door with flush beaded, fielded and single glazed panel with one pennant step in stone cyma moulded architrave on flat surround with moulded brackets to moulded cornice and with wrought iron footscraper attached to plinth block to left, one step to pennant paved crossover. Basement has six/six sash in splayed reveal with stone sill, three pane fixed light in splayed reveal over ashlar extension in area, plank door with overlight in ashlar infilling under crossover, no openings to vaults, limestone and pennant area steps with wrought iron handrail. One double dormer with six/six sashes. Band course over ground floor, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Moulded lead hopperhead and downpipe attached to right shared with 5 Oxford Row (qv). Rear elevation not visible.
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 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: ST7493965322

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673329

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