Dolphin Court Oulton House

Oulton House and Dolphin Court are a late 18th-century house that has been converted into two dwellings, with alterations made in 1881, although it incorporates an earlier core to the rear. The house is constructed of handmade red brick and late 19th-century polychrome brick in a Flemish bond pattern on the front, and coursed squared sandstone at the rear, with stone slate roofs. It has a double-depth plan, incorporating the original building at the rear, which was later used as a service wing for the 18th-century house.

The house is two storeys and three bays deep and has a symmetrical facade. Two-storey canted bays were added to each side in 1881. A central doorway features an architrave of pilasters and an open pediment with dentils, with a glazed and panelled door and a fanlight with intersecting tracery. There is a 12-pane sash window above the doorway and three similar windows on each floor of the bays. A dentilled cornice runs along the top of the building, below a low parapet, with hipped roof and ridge chimneys. A return wall of the left wing extends back, 2 bays wide, with rusticated quoins to the rear corner and a large Venetian stairlight. The rear of the building is of sandstone, over two lower storeys, with less notable openings.

Inside, the entrance hall, accessed from the garden front, features a screen with an elliptical arch and fluted Tuscan columns in antis, as well as a triglyphed entablature. A dog-leg staircase has an open string, scrolled treads, two slim balusters per tread, and a wreathed handrail. The house has very large cellars including stone wine bins.