1, Savile Road

No. 1 Savile Road is a house built in 1902 by C. Nicholson for New College, with some alterations. The exterior is roughcast rendered with Bath stone dressings and features a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys with an attic and consists of three bays with a wing at the rear right. It has ashlar quoin strips at the corners and around the ground-floor openings, as well as sill bands. The windows include 12-pane sash windows and small-pane casement windows in the attic, along with decorative rainwater goods.

The entrance elevation features a central round archway with a hollow-moulded surround and ogee capitals on the jambs, leading to a rectangular side-opening and an internal porch with a studded board door, asymmetrical leaded overlight, and sidelights. The left bay has a two-storey bow with curved, tripled windows, ashlar mullions on the ground floor, and ashlarwork between the floors. The roof is hipped and includes three hipped dormers with two, one, and two lights, as well as banded stacks on the left and right roof slopes.

On the right return, there are four windows on each floor and one hipped dormer. Set back on the right is the end of a one-storey storage range featuring a board door with two glazed panels and a hipped roof. The left return has one window on each floor of the front range. The wing contains a late 20th-century door and two windows on the ground floor that are in keeping with the original design. The storage range projects on the left and has a short extension from 1927 to create a garage.

Inside, the house is largely unaltered and retains panelled doors, fireplaces with tile surrounds and classical architraves, and a full-height open-well stair with turned balusters. The original store rooms in the storage range include a coal-store that has been converted to a garage. Designed as an academic's residence for the college, the house features a large ground-floor study with the drawing room located on the first floor above it.