Oaklands House

Oaklands House is a small country house built in 1884 by Usher and Anthony for Albert Kimberley, designed in an Italianate style. The building features red brick walls, a stone entrance porch, and a bay window. It has a hipped slate roof with brick chimneystacks and a wooden eaves cornice, and is rectangular in shape. The house is two storeys high with seven windows, which are sashes with horns and no glazing bars.

The front elevation includes a stone three-light bay window on the left side, supported by pilasters and brackets, and is flanked by an offset porch that is supported on antae paired with Doric columns on pedestals, topped with an entablature. The left side elevation has four windows, including a three-light bay on the ground floor, and features a tented canopy over a veranda supported by iron columns with decorative fretting above the capitals.

At the rear of the house is a fine conservatory from 1884, which has four tiers of glazed panels and a metal finial on a brick base. There is also a one-storey service wing to the north. Inside, the house retains many original fittings, including an oak staircase with turned bannisters and newel posts, a round-headed stained glass staircase window, several cast iron fireplaces with marble or wooden overmantels, and six-panelled doors.