Oakwood House And Attached Garden Wall

Oakwood House, now a gallery, offices and flat, dates from the early 19th century, with remnants of an earlier building. It is timber-framed and rendered, with a gambrel roof covered in plain tiles, featuring a half-hipped end. The building is two storeys with an attic and cellar, and includes a matching late 19th-century bay window on the south-west end. The front elevation has a four-window range, with three hipped dormers featuring moulded cornices and 20th-century asymmetrical 12-pane sash windows. There is an eaves cornice of bold ogee modillions. Three two-storey canted bay windows feature tripartite small-paned sash windows with timber keystones. The first floor has a flush sash window with similar details, while the ground floor has a pedimented Gibbs surround to the entrance, situated between two original bay windows, and a door of six raised-and-fielded panels. A flight of steps leads to the entrance, incorporating elegant wrought-iron handrails with boot scrapers. Two cellar lights are set into the plinth. The rear elevation includes two gabled two-storey extensions with plain tiles and a mixture of windows, including sash windows.

The interior of the symmetrical early 19th-century section contains a central hall with an elliptical arch and keystone leading to the right, which is now glazed. A Chinese-Chippendale staircase is located in a well to the rear, with an elliptical arch at the head of the first-floor landing. Two original rooms on the first floor retain simple marble fireplace surrounds and cast-iron grates. Many early 19th-century doors and architraves remain, as does a cupboard with cockspur hinges.

A garden wall to the rear includes a stone plaque inscribed with the letters 'PW'.