139-141 Oxford Road

A pair of houses built in the mid-C19 with ground-floor shops, now divided into flats and shops.

MATERIALS AND PLAN: the building is of red brick, painted on the north (Oxford Road) elevation, with a stucco door surround to number 139, iron and glazed shopfronts and a roof covering of slate. It is of three storeys.

EXTERIOR: the building is of four bays onto Oxford Road and two bays onto Russell Street. The hipped roof projects beyond the north and west elevations and there are two chimney stacks on the party wall between 139 and 141. On to Oxford Street, the ground floor contains two shopfronts with bracketed iron columns, rising from a simple plinth, separating full-height glazing, and recessed doorways. The western shopfront is larger. Both shopfronts have modern fascia boards. To the left (east) of the smaller shopfront is a modern door set within a large channelled stucco surround. Each property has two uPVC casement windows at the first and second floors.

The west elevation onto Russell Street has a simple brick-arched doorway and the painted and rendered remains of a signage board on the ground floor, and two uPVC casement windows each on the first and second floors. Adjoining the rear of the property is a two-storey apartment block built in 2012-2014.