187-193 Oxford Road

The terrace at 187-193 Oxford Road consists of four townhouses built in the 1820s, and later converted into flats. The buildings are constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a slate roof, a stucco plat band, and late 20th-century iron railings to the front.

The terrace presents a consistent design, with each house spanning three bays and rising three storeys plus a basement, beneath a hipped roof punctuated by ridgeline chimney stacks along the western party walls. Basement level incorporates a door in the central bay, accessed by steps from the front area, and a window in the western bay. The front doors are recent replacements from the late 20th or early 21st century. Ground floor windows are largely three-over-three sash windows, with a uPVC two-pane sash at number 187 installed after 2009.

The main entrance to the easternmost house is a six-panelled door set within a rendered, round-arched recess with a moulded band above and a patterned fanlight displaying the house number. To the west is a pair of window openings with flat-arched heads and stucco cills. The first and second floors feature three window openings with gauged brickwork heads and stucco cills, the central opening on the second floor being blocked. Windows are sash windows (six-over-six at ground and first floors, three-over-three at second floor), except for those at number 187, which are uPVC two-pane sashes installed post-2009. A plat band runs across the entire front at first-floor cill height.

Rear extensions, built in brick with pitched roofs in the 1990s, are attached to each building. The lower two floors of the original rear facade are rendered. Rear windows vary, with single windows at the basement and ground floors and three at the second floor, some being sash windows. The rear gardens are joined, with those of numbers 191 and 193 retaining more of their original layout than numbers 187 and 189. The front areas are unified with paved surfaces and a continuous line of arrowhead railings along the front boundary.