Oakmere House

Oakmere House is a house, now used for community purposes, built in 1840 with alterations made in the 1860s and further extensions and modifications later. The building features a combination of stuccoed red and stock brick with a slate roof, showcasing a Neo-classical style. It stands two storeys high, with projecting wings flanking a three-bay centre. The ground floor has round-headed sash windows and a central entrance, all set within a Tuscan distyle portico in antis. The first floor is set back and features a larger central window with a lugged architrave and keystone block, while the window to the right is blocked. The single-bay wings have pedimental gables and sash windows. A continuous band of rustication runs along the ground floor, with a string course at the first-floor sill level and a modillioned cornice along the top. The building has a parapet, an external stack on the left return, and a large projecting bay with a pedimental gable on the right return. The ground floor also includes a glazed distyle portico in antis, decorated with banded ornament on the columns, egg and dart motifs on the capitals, and a dentilled cornice. The first-floor windows are similar to those at the front centre. At the rear, there is a two-storey canted bay and entrance featuring scroll brackets and a keystone block in the architrave. To the left, set well back, is a long two-storey extension with four ground-floor glazing bar sashes and architraves on the first-floor windows. There is a further addition to the far left with an entrance in an aedicular surround, along with 20th-century extensions to the rear left. Inside, the entrance hall leads to a staircase hall with ornate wrought-iron balusters on the open well stair and first-floor gallery. A skylight with a plasterwork surround adds to the interior's character. The grounds include lakes to the south and east, which are now a park.