No. 42: Former house/shop/surgery
No. 42 Broad Street was the eighth house from the right of the thirteen houses dating from the first half of the seventeenth century that were demolished to make way for the New Bodleian Library (now the Weston Library) in 1937. It was a very narrow house, and was sometimes shared with 41 next door.
The house was in St Mary Magdalen parish.
At the time of the 1841 census a cook called Alfred Hillier lived here with Ann Hiller and four young children, plus a 17-year-old apprentice cook and two female servants.
The 1851 census shows Caroline Stone, a grocer, occupying 42 Broad Street. Mrs Stone was then a widow of 46, living with her son and daughter and her 72-year-old mother who is listed as undertaking “domestic duties”: they also had one servant and two lodgers: one a journeyman watchmaker, and the other a Proctor in the Vice-Chancellor’s Court.
In about 1860 Dr Acland who lived next door at Nos. 40 & 41 also took over No. 42, and the 1861 census shows him listed at Nos. 40, 41, & 42 with his wife Sarah and their six children, plus their servants.
Dr Acland bought this house in 1864, and demolished and rebuilt it in 1867. Jackson’s Oxford Journal for 19 October 1867 recorded that the new house “is a very handsome addition to its neighbours. The space at disposal was very small, but the architect has contrived to present a well-proportioned façade; and the way in which classic details have been represented render the frontage exceedingly chaste. The architect is Mr W. C. C. Bramwell”. (Bramwell lived next door at No. 43 from 1866 to 1869.)
Dr Acland appears to have let this house out. At the time of the 1871 census John Hughes, the Keeper of the Sheldonian Theatre, occupied both this house at No. 42 as well as No. 41 next door with his family. Hughes decided to give up the house in early 1880, and a sale of his furniture was advertised in Jackson's Oxford Journal on 28 February.
The 1881 census shows the house occupied by William Lewis Morgan, an unmarried surgeon of 29, plus his housekeeper and page-boy. He was still here at the time of the 1891 census with his wife Lucinda and baby son, plus a cook and a nurse.
From 1893 to 1899 Edwin Stewart Craig, a tutor, lived here.
The physician Ernest Mallam moved into No. 42 in about 1900, and the 1901 census shows him living here with his wife and baby son and three servants.
From 1909 to 1912 this eight-roomed house was occupied by the surgeon Edmund Cecil Bevers, and the 1911 census shows him living here with his wife and their servant.
The house continued to be occupied by various medical practitioners until 1936.
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Occupants of 42 Broad Street listed in directories After 1852 when the amalgamation of two houses for Dr Freeborn results in the loss of a number, this house gains an extra number and is listed as 41/42; then when another number is lost after Dr Acland joins two houses, it is sometimes listed as 42/43 |
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1829 |
John Hester |
1841 |
Alfred Hillier, Cook |
1846, 1852 |
Caroline Stone, Grocer & Tea Dealer |
1866–1867 |
John Hughes,
Keeper of the Sheldonian Theatre |
1867 |
This house was demolished and rebuilt |
1869–1880 |
It appears that John Hughes moved into No. 43 next door in about 1870, |
1880–1891 |
William Lewis Morgan |
1893–1899 |
Edwin Stewart Craig, MA, Surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary |
1900–1902 |
Ernest Mallam, MB |
1905–1907 |
Robert W. Doyne, FRCS, Nursing home |
1909–1912 |
Edmund Cecil Bevers, MA, MB, BCh, MRCS, LRCP, Surgeon |
1914 |
George David Jefferson |
1916–1936 |
Augustus Kendrew, LB Eng, Dental Surgeon |
This house was demolished with twelve neighbouring
houses in 1937 |
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See the bound typescript in the Bodleian Library entitled “The
Demolished Houses
of Broad Street and the Freeborn Family”
(1943), attributed to Emily Sarah Freeborn,
and the webpage by Alan Simpson which reproduces some of the material in it.