Belbroughton Road

[2] Amongst them are houses designed by Christopher Wright in the neo-Georgian style.

1 Belbroughton Road (built in 1926) is essentially a simple rectangular design, but including three very distinctive red-brick arches as a feature on the front facade, with rendering within each of the arches.

Sir Francis Simon (1893–1956), the leading physical chemist, physicist, and Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, lived at 10 Belbroughton Road.

They received many refugees at the house and provided hospitality for scientists, former students, and others from around the world.

The road was mentioned in the first line of a poem (May-Day Song for North Oxford) by the poet laureate Sir John Betjeman:[4]