East Oakley House

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ1826 EAST GREEN, West Auckland 634-1/10/159 (South side) 21/04/52 Nos.25 AND 26 East Oakley House (Formerly Listed as: EAST GREEN, FRONT STREET (N) (South side) West Auckland No.65 East Oakley House)

GV II

House. Mid C17 with C19 and C20 alterations. MATERIALS: rubble with ashlar and painted ashlar dressings; rendered bay window. Roof concrete tiles with stone gable copings and rendered chimneys; bay window roof Welsh slate. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays. Walls show slight batter. North front, facing green, has C20 outshut at left obscuring door. Central window with flat stone lintel is probably inserted in earlier doorway, detail obscured by mortar. Above, keyed round headed surround to stair window with late C19 coloured glass in margined lights. At right, 2-storey canted bay window with cornice and chamfered stone mullions to 1:4:1 lights on each floor. Gables, lower over bay window, have copings on moulded kneelers. End chimneys have renewed flat stone coping. Rear elevation, to south, has painted flat stone lintels, pecked and margined, over central late C20 boarded door with central glazed panel, and plain overlight, and late C20 plain windows with top-hung transom lights, plus C20 sash with glazing bars at west ground floor. Painted projecting stone sills to windows. INTERIOR shows chamfered stone fire surround with recessed Tudor-arched, head dated 1651 for IKK? in ground-floor west room. Splayed reveals to south window in this room and chamfered ceiling beam. Central narrow stair with lower winders has renewed handrail and apparently renewed boarded steps.

Listing NGR: NZ1844126378