Reg No
50080906
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1875 - 1885
Coordinates
315026, 232834
Date Recorded
04/11/2013
Date Updated
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Terrace of five two-bay single-storey houses, built c.1880. Pitched artificial slate roofs, with red brick and rendered chimneystacks, and red brick sawtooth eaves course. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to front (east) elevation having rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings having cut granite sills, some patent reveals, some yellow brick voussoirs, two-over-two timber sash windows and replacement uPVC and timber windows. Square-headed door openings with granite steps, plain overlights and timber panelled doors.
This terrace retains much of its early form and character, and the decorative brick eaves course adds interest to the otherwise plain façade. The terrace shares similarities of scale and material with neighbouring terraces, resulting in a coherent streetscape. The construction of new residential streets in this area coincided with the immigration of Jewish communities fleeing pogroms in Europe in the late nineteenth century, and the area became known as Little Jerusalem. The 1901 census indicates numerous Jewish families of Russian origin living in Oakfield Place, and the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 notes a 'hebrah' or minor synagogue on the street.