[citation needed] The houses in Polstead Road were designed by Harry Wilkinson Moore and built between 1887 and 1894.
2, Polstead Road in the summer of 1896 with the aim that the children could receive a good education for a reasonable cost.
Here also was born his youngest brother, A. W. Lawrence, who went on to become the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University in the 1940s.
They built a bungalow in the garden especially for Lawrence because the house was not large enough to accommodate the entire family.
In January 2017, it was reported that Oxford City Council had failed to gain Grade II listed status for the Lawrence home, leaving its future in doubt.