Oaker

Oaker is an early 17th-century farmhouse with later additions and alterations, primarily from the late 19th century. Constructed of roughcast and rendered timber framing, with some areas clad or rebuilt in painted brick, it has slate roofs. The building follows a U-plan to the south, comprising a long hall range with a central baffle entry and a gabled cross-wing to the left. The left cross-wing has a jettied first floor, while the right is a late 19th-century addition. It has two storeys and a 1:3:1 window arrangement. Windows are late 19th-century and 20th-century casements, including a French window to the left cross-wing, and three windows grouped together on the ground floor of the right cross-wing. A narrow 20th-century casement has been inserted to the left of the hall range on the first floor. The central entrance has a boarded door with a segmental-headed rectangular barred overlight. A painted red brick ridge stack above the entrance has a toothed capping. A prominent external lateral rubblestone stack to the left cross-wing has a 20th-century red brick top with toothed capping, and there is also a toothed capping to the integral end stack behind the ridge to the right of the hall range. The rear elevation features projecting gables to the center and left (the latter rendered timber frame), along with the continuation of the right cross-wing. During a 1986 inspection, the ground-floor room of the left cross-wing was noted to have parallel stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.