124 Oxford Road

House, built in the 1850s or early 1860s, now a dental surgery.

MATERIALS AND PLAN: the building is rendered, with stone or stucco window and door surrounds, timber bargeboards, iron railings to the ground-floor window and a roof covering of slate. The building is of two-and-a-half storeys plus basement.

EXTERIOR: the entrance front has two bays onto Oxford Road. The eastern bay is larger, and projects forward of the smaller, western bay. A plat band runs across the principal elevation at first-floor cill height. The roof of the larger western bay is pitched with barge boards on the southern gable, while the roof of the eastern bay is hipped.

On the raised ground floor of the larger, eastern bay is a tripartite window with a pedimented cornice (the pediment is currently concealed by signage) and a decorative wrought and cast iron balcony supported on a bracketed stone base. Within this elaborate frame is a six-over-six sash window flanked by two-over-two sashes. On the first floor is a smaller and less elaborate tripartite window with cornice, comprising a six-over-six sash flanked by two-over-two sashes, with faux timber shutters. There is a round-arched window opening to the attic floor with a bracketed cill and hood mould, containing a uPVC casement window.

The main entrance is on the raised ground floor of the smaller, western bay. It comprises a six-panelled door under a sunburst fanlight, set within a round-arched, bracketed recess, accessed via a flight of stone steps with iron handrails. On the first floor is a round-arched sash window with bracket cill and hood mould, with faux timber shutters.

The two side elevations are rendered and blank aside from a single window each at first-floor level. On the western elevation, the window is a round-headed sash, while on the eastern elevation it is a modern, square-headed casement.

The rear elevation of the original house contains a single window at each floor, which appear to be sashes. To the western half of the rear elevation is a rendered, three-storey extension with a flat roof, containing modern casements at each level. There is a small, single-storey extension on the north-east corner of the building.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to the Oxford Street boundary is a low, rendered wall, which may be contemporary to the house.