Building record 1114400000 - 1-2 ACLAND TERRACE, CHURCH STREET

Grade II. Semi-detached house. Circa 1850. Coursed rubble stone, plinth, rendered first floor band course inscribed 'Acland Cottages'. Tiled roof, end rafters exposed at gables. Central rectangular chimney stack with stone base and blue brick above. 2 storeys, 4 symmetrical bays, the outer bays lower and set back. Stone mullion windows, those to first floor with segmental relieving arches and gables over. Centre bays have 3-light windows to ground floor, 2-light above. Outer bays have single lights and half-glazed doors with lean-to hoods bracketted on stone corbels in angle with centre bays. Built for Sir Henry Acland, as improved housing for the Ewelme estate (B1).
The 28 stone-faced residential terrace properties owned by the Ewelme Trust in Marsh Gibbon were built for village families under the direction of Sir Henry Acland, who, as Regius Professor of Medicine in Oxford was the ex-officio Master of the Charity between 1858 and 1894. Sir Henry was particularly involved in public health issues and had been appalled at the dreadful living conditions of many villagers in the mid-19th Century (B2).