Later houses are much more varied in character, as the advent
of rail transport led to a greater variety of affordable building materials.
William Wilkinson, architect to the St. John's College estate, designed
houses in Richmond Road and Walton Crescent in the 1860s with fashionable
polychrome
fronts using stone and bricks of several colours. Builders too followed
fashion to make their houses more appealing and some Cranham Street houses,
for example, have Gothic
heads to doors and windows,
echoing grander North Oxford properties.
Bay windows make an appearance in Juxon Street, emphasising the individuality
of each house. These, like the later houses in Richmond Road and Walton
Crescent, are set back from the pavement behind front flower gardens,
like the early terraces in Walton Street, but very
different from the older streets in the heart of Jericho.