Estate buildings formerly associated with Oakhurst Hall

Estate buildings formerly associated with Oakhurst Hall, comprising a two-storey L-shaped building with boundary walls and gate piers to the fold and stable yard. Built in 1853 and designed by Thomas Nicholson, diocesan architect of Hereford.

The buildings are constructed of brick in English garden wall bond, faced in snecked stone with ashlar dressings, and have pitched roofs covered in slates. The L-shaped plan comprises a west range containing the former cowhouse and threshing barn with granary opening onto the fold yard, separated by a dividing wall from the stable yard range. The latter includes a covered driveway bay giving access to the public road, a former fowl house, a stable divided into three stalls with a loose box at the south end, and a coach house and workshop now opened up as a single space. To the north side of the stable yard is a further stable and harness room, with a cottage attached to the east end. The cottage has a central staircase plan, with its first floor extending over the harness room to the rear; the rear range has been raised to two storeys.

The exterior is distinguished by shaped gables at the south and north ends, each with a round pitching eye. The north gable is flanked by cruciform arrow slits with lobed ends. The west elevation features a roughly central round-arched driveway with pronounced quoins, a keystone and multi-faceted imposts, with a pair of retained timber gates. Narrow shaped gables flank this driveway above pitching eyes, flanked by three cruciform arrow slits with lobed ends; this feature is repeated on the inner north and south walls of the driveway. The east elevation and south elevation of the north range have ground floor door and window openings including a pair of hinged threshing doors and a pair of sliding coach house doors, all beneath segmental stone heads, with narrow ventilation slits to the first floor. A large ridge stack stands between the stable range and cottage.

The cottage has shaped gables with round windows to the principal east, north and south elevations, tall casement windows to the ground floor, and a timber porch to the front; a porch was added to the side north door in the 20th century.

The cowhouse retains its stone sett floor and drainage channel. The stable to the west side of the stable yard is complete with cobbled floor, drainage channel, stall partitions (one retaining an iron railing section above), brick mangers with timber lips, iron tethering rings and wooden hooks for harnesses, with decorative iron vents to the partitions and ceiling. The stable to the north side of the yard retains its floor and some original stable fixtures and fittings, including the original timber ceiling with scissor bracing and feeding channels from the loft. The cottage interior has been modernised.

The subsidiary features include a snecked stone boundary wall to the fold and stable yard with two pairs of gate piers with domed caps.