[4] From 1790 there was a coal wharf at the end of the Oxford Canal on the north side of New Road.

[7][8] The architect John Plowman designed it in a Norman Revival style with crenellations to complement the castle.

[7][8] St. Peter-le-Bailey Parish School was built in 1849 on the corner of New Road and Tidmarsh Lane.

[9] Increasing traffic on New Road made this an unsatisfactory site for a school so in 1898 an appeal was launched for funds to move to new premises.

[7] In 1969 it was demolished and replaced by Macclesfield House,[6] a building of precast concrete which until the 2000s was one of the offices of Oxfordshire County Council.

On the north side of New Road is a small Gothic Revival building designed by Charles Buckeridge and built in 1863.