Great Oakley Lodge

Great Oakley Lodge is a house dating from around 1600, with extensions made in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The building is timber framed, featuring sections that are weatherboarded, plastered, and constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, all topped with handmade red clay tiles.

The main part of the house consists of two or three bays and is aligned approximately north-south. To the north, there is an 18th-century crosswing that has an internal stack at the west end and an external stack at the east end. A lean-to extension is located in the southeast corner, creating a catslide roof with the crosswing, and is partly covered with slate. An early 19th-century extension to the south is entirely made of red brick and includes an internal stack at the junction, along with a 20th-century lean-to conservatory to its south. There is also a single-storey extension from the 19th century to the west, which has been altered in the 20th century. The house is mainly two storeys tall, with the south extension featuring two storeys and an attic beneath a gambrel roof.

The north elevation is weatherboarded and has two early 19th-century sash windows with sixteen lights on the ground floor and two with twelve lights on the first floor, some of which contain crown glass. The central entrance features a half-glazed door with a flat canopy supported by 19th-century cast iron stanchions. The east elevation showcases an early 19th-century facade of red brick. Inside, the original north-south range includes jowled posts, a chamfered binding beam, and chamfered joists with plain stops, along with a clasped purlin roof and an original winder stair that has turned balusters and a moulded handrail at the top.