The Oaks

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO99NW MERRIDALE ROAD 895-1/5/269 (South side) 03/02/77 The Oaks

II

House, now flats. c1830. Stucco with hipped slate roof. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range with 2-storey, 2-window extension to right and C20 single-storey extension to front of latter. Main part has curved flanking walls to forecourt, quoins and top cornice and blocking course. Windows have architraves and are sashed, those to ground floor have friezes, consoled cornices and 4-pane horned sashes; those to 1st and 2nd floors have eared architraves, 16-pane sashes to 1st floor and central Venetian window with small-paned sashes; square windows with 12-pane sashes to 2nd floor and central Diocletian window with archivolt and 6-pane sash. Large central entrance with half-glazed doors, side and overlights, open C20 porch. Extension to right similar. Cross-axial stack and stack to return. Left return similar, with large bow window with paired flat pilasters; similar 2-storey bow window to rear. Right return has large round-headed stair window with tripartite sash and etched glass. INTERIOR has moulded cornice and stick-baluster staircase to stairhall. The family home of John Marston J.P., 1836-1918, founder of the Sunbeam Company, Mayor and Freeman, and his son Sir Charles Marston, 1867-1946, industrialist and author.

Listing NGR: SO9038598535