171-177 Oxford Road

This is a terrace of four houses built in the 1820s on Oxford Road. Originally residential, the properties were later converted for various uses including shops and offices, and are now flats. The terrace is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, topped with a slate roof and iron railings. Each house has three storeys plus a basement.

The houses are of matching design, each with three bays facing Oxford Road and a pitched roof with ridgeline chimney stacks between the party walls. The main entrance to the terrace, located in the easternmost bay of the raised ground floor, is a round-arched recess accessed by steps with iron handrails. All four properties have modern front doors, but number 177 retains an historic sunburst fanlight above its entrance. The ground floor has two window openings west of the front door, followed by three windows at each of the first and second floor levels, with the second-floor windows being smaller than those below. Three of the upper-floor windows are blocked. All window openings have flat arches constructed with gauged bricks, and most contain modern uPVC casements. Number 175 retains a six-over-six sash window above the front door, and number 173 has two two-pane sashes on the raised ground floor.

Basement level windows are similarly arched, with steps leading to a door beneath the main entrance. Numbers 175 and 177 have early 20th-century blank shop frontages with console brackets above the basement windows, which have been enlarged. These two properties have arrowhead railings along their front boundary; numbers 171 and 173 have lost their original boundary treatments.

Rear extensions are present on all four properties. Those at numbers 171, 173, and 175 appear to be 20th-century additions. Number 177 has a three-storey bow window on the western half of its rear elevation, and a two-storey extension filling the remaining plot width. Aside from the bow window, the rear elevations lack notable historic features. Numbers 171, 173, and 177 retain large rear gardens, although the garden of number 177 has been significantly reduced by the creation of a car park serving a property on Goldsmid Road to the south.