Fotheringay House Tennyson House

Fotheringay House (No 14) and Tennyson House (No 15) are slightly taller houses located on Montpelier Row, dating from the 19th century. Both houses feature red window dressings. Fotheringay House has five windows and a rusticated doorway similar to Nos 12 and 13, but it includes an imported stucco cherub head ornament attached to the keystone and a name on a decorated plaque. Tennyson House is four windows wide and boasts an elaborate doorcase, stained dark brown and possibly imported, with an enriched surround and a deep cornice hood supported by carved consoles. There are no glazing bars except for the window to the left of the ground floor. The side of Tennyson House facing Chapel Lane features a 18th-century, two-storey stucco bow that projects from the first floor, along with a Corinthian pilastered doorcase. Fotheringay House was once occupied by Joseph Skelton, an antiquarian and engraver known for publishing "Oxonia Antiqua Restaurata" in 1823. Tennyson House was previously called Chapel House and later Holyrood House, and it was occupied by Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1850, where he is said to have written "In Memoriam."