Origins of Pullen’s Lane     

Joe Pullen’s Tree

Houses, with first owner

• 1880: The Pullens/Fairfield Demolished; EF Language School now on the site
  (Sir William Markby, Reader in Indian Law)
• 1882: The Croft Later part of Rye St Antony School, now part of Headington Rye School
  (Paul Ferdinand Willert, Fellow of Exeter College)
• 1884: Torbrex/Pullens End
  (Evelyn Abbott, Fellow in Classics at Balliol College)
• 1886: Pullen’s Gate, formerly Brockless/ Brockleaze Cottage/The Pullens
  (Patrick Arkley Henderson, Fellow of Wadham College)
• 1887: Langley Lodge Later part of Rye St Antony School, now part of Headington Rye School
  (Philip Lyttleton Gell, Secretary to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press)
  
• 1890: The Vineyard/Pollock House Now The Vines, SCIO (Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford)
  (Sydney Howard Vines, Sherardian Professor of Botany)
• 1892: Cotuit Hall, formerly Napier House Now EF International Academy
  (Arthur Sampson Napier, Professor of English Language and Literature)
  
• 1900: Mendip House
  (Herbert Francis Fox, Tutor at Brasenose College
• 1910: High Wall
  (Miss K.J.D. Feilden)

See also:

• Harberton Mead (originally deemed to be part of Pullen’s Lane)
• Jack Straw’s Lane (tacked on to the end of Pullen’s Lane in censuses)