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Nineteenth-century House

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aldisley said:
This is a pair of semi-detached houses. Note that although the outer bays (containing the circulation spaces) are gothic, the inner bays (containing the principal apartments) are much like any Victorian house, with large canted bays. This would appear to be the laying out of a grand suburb, with remains of countryside to the left and further development to the right. This is clearly high-class work, in stone where this is not the local habit (note the brick garden wall and, I think, the other houses).
Cornell University Library said:
aldisley Thank you for all this information!
Andy said:
Absolutely sure this is also North Oxford but I cant find it. This really needs to be posted in a flickr group such as What's That Picture. Someone who knows or lives in Oxford could identify it straight off.
Cornell University Library said:
Thank you Andy for your comment!
Hans-Bernd Abel said:
Nos. 17+18 Parks Road, North Oxford, viewed from north east. Semi-detached houses on the east side of the Keble Road Triangle (Keble / Parks / Banbury Rd), opposite to University Parks' West Walk. Built in 1872, architect unknown. Named "South Elms" (No. 17) and "North Elms" (No. 18). Built on an estate of 16,000 square feet (the front line was more than 180 feet). Lots of gothic revival elements, pointed arches around doors & windows, stained glass windows along the staircases, quatrefoil windows, finials on top of the corners of the central roof. Among the residents were William Merry, Oxford preacher, Lecturer and Rector of Lincoln College, at North Elms, and T.K. Cheyne, English Biblical Scholar & Oriel professor, at South Elms. The house in the background on the left is No. 15 Parks Road, the northern part of "East View", which is also shown in this album. The space between East View and South Elms remained vacant for 20 more years until "The Red House" (No. 16) was built and leased in 1895. In the 1930s it became the home of the family of Sir Howard Florey, nobel laureate for his work on the development of penicillin. In the late 1950s, No. 16 had to make way for a school building of the Dept. of Metallurgy, a glass/steel structure known today as Hume-Rothery Building. Once the most prominent building in this street, North & South Elms soon became overtopped by further post modern buildings of the evolving Science Area, particularly Thom Building in 1963 and Denys Wilkinson Building in 1967. In 1963, nearby Pitt Rivers Museum started to use No. 18 as external storage space for collection items. After these had been returned to the Museums' Upper Gallery in 1972, the building was stripped of everything reusable (roof tiles, windows) and eventually, in 1973, demolished to make way for Holder Building. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - Town Plan of Oxfordshire XXXIII.15.7 (1876), National Library of Scotland - Picture Oxon, photographs by Malcolm Graham - Internet Archive (archive.org) - The Pitt Rivers Museum Conservation Plan View the other photographs of Victorian Architecture of North Oxford in this album.

Nineteenth-century House

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Zzap07 said:
Hey, just want to know which part of england this picture is?
Hans-Bernd Abel said:
North Lodge of the University Parks, North Oxford, viewed from south. Built in 1862 by H. Wilkinson Moore. Grade II listed. Located at the northern gate of University Parks, where Banbury Road, Norham Gardens and Parks Road meet. This would have been a nice starting point for a walkabout to most of the North Oxford buildings shown in the collection of A. D. White Architectural Photographs. To the right, it's just a few steps to Wycliffe Hall at No. 54 Banbury Road, formerly named Laleham, photographed in this album from the west and southeast. Further northwards on Banbury Road, William Wilkinson built No. 60, "Shrublands", now part of Kellogg College. Even further to the right is Norham Gardens, with large residential villas, many of them later converted for accommodation or for institutional use, including No. 3 Norham Gardens shown in this album. Straight across the street were No. 31 Banbury Road, "The Firs" and the impressive "Springfield" villa at No. 33, both of them cornerstones of the site of St. Anne's College, today you find two mid-century student residences there instead. Nearby Bevington Road would pass you to some beautiful villas on Woodstock Road, but unfortunately, neither Nos. 113 and 115 nor the Italianate Walton Manor House at No. 141 survived the redevelopment era of the 1960s. Turn to the left from here and follow University Walk in south direction towards Keble College. On this section of Parks Road, there was a line of impressive Victorian houses at that time, including Nos. 17-18 (South & North Elms), now displaced by the brutalistic Holder building. But Nos. 12-13 (South & North Grove) and 14-15 (East View) still provide a glimpse of that era. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - A. Spokes Symmonds: The Changing Faces of North Oxford, Books I & II View the other photographs of Victorian Architecture of North Oxford in this album.