Oakley Hall and pair of sphinxes framing east entrance

Oakley Hall is a country house dating back to 1710, with subsequent additions and alterations. It was originally built for Sir John Chetwode. The house is constructed of red brick on a sandstone plinth, with ashlar and rusticated dressings, and slate roofs. Brick ridge stacks have been rebuilt in the late 20th century. The building is two stories high, with a flat stone string course, moulded eaves cornice, and a parapet.

The east front, which serves as the entrance front, is symmetrical, composed of eleven bays arranged a-b-c-b-a. The two end bays project slightly. Rusticated quoin strips define the corners, and the central bays are ashlar-faced, flanked by giant pilasters with Corinthian capitals. Windows are glazing bar sashes in moulded stone surrounds, with projecting keystones. A mid-window features a grotesque lion's head and swags of garlands and volutes. The central doorway has a segmental pediment on console brackets, leading to a six-panel double door with a delicately wreathed metal fanlight. A balustrade sits above the parapet, with a simple early 20th-century pediment decorated with festooned garlands at the centre, replacing a formerly curved pediment with shaped finials.

The north front has seven bays, including a three-window bow from the early 19th century in the centre of the ground floor. The west front is divided into three:three:three bays, with the central section slightly projecting and featuring a full-height three-window bow under a conical roof. Note the turned balusters below the first-floor windows and the console brackets at the central one. The south front is plain with four bays, and a four-bay colonnaded verandah, now reconstructed as a conservatory in the late 20th century, is attached to the south-west corner.

The interior was substantially altered in the early 1970s. Notable features include an early 18th-century staircase with turned balusters, a plastered ceiling and frieze (circa 1800) in the ground floor of the west bow, a fireplace (also circa 1800), and window shutters in both the single-story north bow and the two-story west bow.

Flanking the main entrance are two sphinx-like figures, having female heads, and cast iron lamps. A ha-ha with a drystone wall approximately 1.2 metres high lies around 60 metres to the east, and is within the curtilage of the house.