Survey Data

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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Description

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.

Appraisal

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.