Fotheringay House Tennyson House

1. 5028 MONTPELIER ROW

No 14 (Fotheringay House) No 15 (Tennyson House) TQ 1673 & 1773 21/8 2.9.52

II* GV

1. Slightly taller houses with red window dressings. No 14: 5-windows, rusticated doorway as Nos 12 and 13, but with stucco cherubs head ornament (imported) attached to keystone. Name on decorated plaque. No 15: 4-windows wide. Elaborate doorcase (stained dark brown and possibly imported) with enriched surround and deep cornice hood on carved consoles. No glazing bars except to window to left of ground floor. Return of No 15 on Chapel Lane has a C18, 2-storey stucco bow projecting from first floor, and a Corinthian pilastered doorcase. No 14 was at one time occupied by Joseph Skelton, antiquarian and engraver, who published the 1823 "Oxonia Antiqua Restaurata". No 15 was formerly called Chapel House and later Holyrood House. It was occupied in 1850 by Tennyson who is said to have written "In Memoriam" there.

Listing NGR: TQ1701373745