Oakenshaw Grange

Oakenshaw Grange is a house that was used as a hotel in the 19th century, known as Oakenshaw Railway Hotel, and is now a private residence. It dates from the late 18th century, with a mid-19th century addition at the rear. The building features well-coursed punch-dressed stone and brown/red brick in English garden wall bond at the rear, where a 19th-century brick extension is attached. The roof is made of stone slate, with asbestos covering the rear range.

The house has three storeys and a symmetrical three-bay facade. The doorway has monolithic jambs and is sheltered by an open gabled porch, which may be an earlier feature that has been reused. This porch includes channelled quoin pilasters and a semicircular arch with imposts and a dropped keystone, topped with a triangular pediment. Above the doorway, and on either side, are windows with plain stone surrounds, retaining original 20-pane sashes on the ground floor and 16-pane sashes above. The central bay is accentuated by a pedimented gable, and the roof is hipped.

At the rear, there is a brick service range with an added two-storey lean-to that contains a doorway in the side wall. Each floor has a segmental-arched window, while the third floor features two square-headed windows. The lean-to roof meets the main house with a coped half gable. There are two brick stacks positioned laterally at the junction of the two ranges. The left-hand return of the building has a two-storey 19th-century canted bay window with sill bands, and each face of the bay has a sash window.

Inside, the entrance hall is painted and has oak paneling, featuring an archway with fluted Ionic pilasters that leads to a dog-leg staircase, which is boxed in and has a swept handrail. On either side of the hall are doorways with moulded architraves; the left doorway leads to the original oak-panelled dining room, which includes an elaborate carved fireplace that is not original.