It encompasses a small rural village on Quaker Farms Road (Connecticut Route 188) anchored by the Christ Church Episcopal, an 1812 wood-frame church with Federal and Gothic styling, located at 470 Quaker Farms Road.

The oldest houses date to the 1720s, and the church has a particularly well-preserved early 19th-century interior, albeit with some alterations.

Oxford was incorporated in the late 18th century, and the Quaker Farms area had grown sufficiently by the 1810s to warrant an Episcopal parish separate from that at the town center.

There is a single instance of Victorian Queen Anne architecture, at 489 Quaker Farms Road.

A small number of Colonial Revival houses were built in the village in the early 20th century.