No.3 And Attached Railings And Vaults

OXFORD ROW 656-1/30/1163 No.3 and attached railings and vaults (Formerly Listed as: LANSDOWN ROAD (West side) Nos 1-12 (consec) Oxford Row) 12/06/50

GV II

House, now flats. c1775 with C20 additions. Probably designed by Thomas Warr Atwood, who certainly developed them. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, painted to basement, not visible to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh slate to front, not visible to rear, with two ashlar stacks rising from coped party wall left. Staircase to front. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three window front. First floor has three nine/nine horned sashes in splayed ovolo moulded architraves rising from lowered stone sills and with friezes and cornices, second floor has three six/six sashes in ovolo moulded architraves rising from stone sills. Ground floor has to left two six/six horned sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills, to right six panel door with flush beaded, fielded and single glazed panel with Doctor knocker with one pennant step in stone doorcase with cyma moulded architrave on flat surround with moulded brackets to moulded cornice, two steps to pennant paved crossover with wrought iron footscraper. Basement has two six/six sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills, plank door with eight pane overlight in ashlar infilling under crossover, window opening with wrought iron bars to vaults, wrought iron handrail to C20 area steps. Double dormer with six/six sashes. Band course over ground floor, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Rear elevation not visible. INTERIOR: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads on limestone bases. HISTORY: These houses were developed on Council land by Thomas Warr Atwood, who obtained the ground in 1773 (Council Minutes 2 March 1773). They are standard Palladian designs for the 1770's, and could be the work of Atwood, of John Wood the Younger, or of Thomas Jelly, but the evidence suggests that Atwood is the most likely. 'Atwood was a competent though conservative architect whose elevations are excellent examples of the English Palladian tradition as applied to street architecture.' (Colvin). SOURCES: W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1948), 35 and 159; H. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840 (1978), 77.

Listing NGR: ST7493965316