Corner House

Corner House is a pair of townhouses located on a corner site, built in 1911 by Edwin Lutyens for Lady Norman and Hon. F. Maclaren. The houses are constructed of fine red brick with minimal Portland stone dressings and feature a tiled roof. They exhibit a restrained neo-Georgian style, carefully proportioned but with larger windows. The buildings rise three storeys and include two tiers of dormers in a steep mansard roof. The facade is nine windows wide, with a four-window return on Little College Street and a three-window return on Cowley Street, complemented by a lower two-storey rear section to the north. The doorways are almost adjacent at the center of the Great Peter Street front, featuring stone architraves with plain keyblocks and cornices above. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes set under flat gauged arches, and there is a stone plinth at the base. A prominent stone eaves cornice and closely set sashed dormers with flat lead roofs and cheeks add to the architectural detail. This pair of houses holds an important position in relation to Cowley Street.