2-14, PLANTATION ROAD

Reasons for Designation

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.

Details

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.

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Hinchcliffe, T, North Oxford, ()

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