124 Oxford Road

This is a two-and-a-half-storey house with a basement, built in the 1850s or early 1860s and now used as a dental surgery. The exterior is rendered, with stone or stucco surrounds for the windows and door, timber bargeboards, iron railings to the ground-floor windows, and a slate roof.

The building has two bays facing Oxford Road; the eastern bay is larger and projects forward. A plat band runs across the principal elevation at first-floor window sill height. The western bay has a pitched roof with bargeboards on the southern gable, while the eastern bay has a hipped roof.

The eastern bay’s raised ground floor features a large tripartite window with a pedimented cornice (currently obscured by signage) and a decorative wrought iron balcony supported on a bracketed stone base. The window contains a six-over-six sash flanked by two-over-two sashes. Above this, on the first floor, is a smaller tripartite window with a cornice, also containing a six-over-six sash flanked by two-over-two sashes, and faux timber shutters. A round-arched window opening to the attic floor has a bracketed cill and hood mould, with a modern uPVC casement window.

The western bay’s entrance is on its raised ground floor, consisting of a six-panelled door under a sunburst fanlight, within a round-arched recess with bracketed detail, and accessed by stone steps with iron handrails. The first floor has a round-arched sash window with a bracketed cill and hood mould, also with faux timber shutters.

The side elevations are rendered and mostly blank, each containing a single window at first-floor level. The western side has a round-headed sash window; the eastern side has a modern, square-headed casement window.

The rear elevation originally had a single window on each floor, likely sashes. A three-storey rendered extension with a flat roof now occupies the western half of the rear elevation, incorporating modern casement windows at each level. A smaller, single-storey extension is located on the north-east corner of the building.

A low, rendered wall, possibly original, runs along the Oxford Street boundary.