Roveries Hall

Roveries Hall is a house built in 1810 by John Hiram Haycock for John Oakeley, serving as an enlargement of an earlier structure. It is constructed from stuccoed limestone rubble and features hipped slate roofs, showcasing a Regency villa style. The building has two storeys, a plinth, deep eaves, and seven brick ridge stacks.

The south-west front consists of four bays with glazing bar sashes, including tripartite windows with recessed segmental heads in the outer bays on the ground floor, and a central two-bay two-storey bow. The south-east front has three bays, with the ground floor to the left being blank. It features a central pair of half-glazed doors, an ashlar porch supported by unfluted Greek Doric columns and pilasters, topped with a full entablature and lead top. To the right, there is a projecting lower wing with a hipped roof, dating from the 18th century.

Inside, the entrance hall has semi-circular end walls and a panelled plaster ceiling. There is a double-height top-lit staircase hall with a dog-leg staircase featuring stick balusters. The Drawing Room includes a fireplace with reeded architraves and doors with similar detailing. The Panelled Room, located on the ground floor to the right at the rear, is a post-war addition from a London house. It features raised and fielded panelling with a dado and moulded cornice, a fireplace with a lugged architrave and a central carved shell panel, flanked by carved acanthus and an egg and dart enriched cornice. The panelled overmantel has an eared architrave with a shell above and flanking husk garlands, along with semi-circular arched buffets. Additionally, there is a six-panelled door with an architrave and a doorcase featuring an acanthus frieze and a broken triangular pediment.