Description

OXFORD ROW
656-1/30/1168

No.8 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.
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 ashlar stacks rising from coped party wall to left, to front rebuilt, not visible to rear. Staircase to front.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three window front. First floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices rising from lowered stone sills, second floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves rising from stone sills. Ground floor has to left two plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills, to right six panel door flush beaded, fielded and single glazed panel 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 two six/six sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, plank door with three pane overlight in ashlar infilling under crossover, C20 area steps. One double dormer with plate glass horned sashes. Band course over ground floor, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Rear elevation partially visible has plate glass horned sashes to second floor, two single and two double dormers with C20 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 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: ST7493265394

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673333

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