Oxley House

Oxley House is a house located on Nelson Street in King's Lynn. It dates from the late 17th century but was entirely rebuilt in the early 18th century. The building is constructed of brick, which is rendered and colorwashed on the street-facing facade, topped with a plain tiled roof. The facade features two storeys and a dormer attic divided into five bays, with the central bay projecting forward.

The central entrance is framed by a doorcase consisting of a pair of engaged Doric columns that support a segmental pediment, which encloses a six-panelled door. The house has sash windows with glazing bars and a flat plat band at the first floor. Rusticated quoins are present on the close elevation, and a central pediment rises above a timber modillion eaves cornice. The roof is tall and hipped, with a gabled dormer on each face except the west side. The north return extends into a hipped wing that has a gabled dormer on its west face, and this wing's west front has two bays. A conservatory added around 1970 obscures the ground floor below two first-floor 18th-century sash windows with glazing bars and scalloped sash hoods. The south return features a canted late 18th-century bay window, which has fluted and reeded pilaster strips.

Inside, the front door leads into a combined staircase and entrance hall. The open-string early 18th-century staircase ascends to a balcony return over the doorway, featuring carved tread-ends and two vase and turned balusters for each tread, along with a ramped handrail. The turned newels are set on square section pedestals. A matching dado rail is imposed on 17th-century plank and muntin panelling. The upper flights of the staircase are late 17th-century, with a closed-string design, sturdy vases below taper-turned balusters, and a moulded straight handrail. The stairwell reveals timber studwork. The first-floor room to the north contains large-frame panelling from the early 18th century, and the main roof structure includes principals, collars, and clasped purlins, with many renewed common rafters.