Oxhey Hall

Oxhey Hall is a house dating back to the early 16th century, with extensions added in the early 17th century. It was remodelled and largely rebuilt around 1870. The building is timber-framed and has a brick casing, with some rendered areas. It has slate roofs. Originally a six-bay range, it may have been a hunting lodge or lodgings related to a larger house. Externally, the building presents a 19th-century appearance.

The two-storey front has a six-window façade. The entrance is through a shaped gabled porch in the third bay from the left, which has a plank door with strap hinges. A canted bay window is located to the right of the centre on the ground floor. The windows are sashes with cambered heads, and a diagonally set brick band and cornice run along the front. There is an 18th-century brick stack to the right of the centre, which has been recapped, and an original stack at the left end with a 19th-century cap. Coped gable end parapets are present, and a cat-slide roof extends to the rear over a two-storey passage which was built as a continuous outshut. A relieving arch is visible on the left return.

A two-bay, rendered wing from the 17th century is situated to the rear left and features two-light casements. It has a 17th-century rendered end stack with ovens. The right return provides access to the rear passage behind the main range. A 19th-century one-bay, two-storey block extends to the rear right, with a gable and an extruded stack.

Inside, the ground floor to the right contains a richly carved 16th-century oak ceiling. This features moulded bearers framing 16 panels with leaf and flower cusp terminals and bosses, supported by curved brackets springing from moulded capitals of semi-octagonal wall posts. Herringbone bracing is visible in large panels on the end wall. The rear passage has arched braces from posts with moulded capitals on both floors, along with curved tension braces. There are arched braces, some hollow chamfered, from heavily jowled wall posts to cambered tie beams. The roof structure includes tenoned purlins, angled and curved struts to principal rafters (covering four bays), double purlins with a curved X brace from principals to tie beam, and curved wind braces. The 17th-century wing has arched braces to a queen strut, a clasped purlin roof with wind braces.

The house is situated on a moated site.