Otley House

Otley House is a house dating back to the 17th or 18th century, with later additions in the 1920s. The house has a timber-framed core clad in rendered brick, with a plain tiled roof. The front elevation is symmetrical, arranged around six bays. A projecting ground floor section, extended in the 1920s, has a brick plinth and originally aligned flush with the first floor. The central ground floor bay features a classical door surround with fluted pilasters and a convex frieze, enclosing a six-panel door. Flanking the door are three sash windows with exposed sash boxes, with pairs of rectangular panels between each; these panels have bolection-moulded surrounds. A cornice runs along the top of the ground floor brickwork. The recessed first floor mirrors the ground floor arrangement with similar panels and windows. A hipped roof tops the building, punctuated by 19th-century square chimney stacks with cogged bands.

The right-hand side of the house presents a projecting bay with French windows at ground floor level and a tripartite first floor window with a central four-pane sash and flanking two-pane sashes. A recessed rear wing features a tripartite ground floor window with a central three-pane sash and flanking two-pane sashes, with bolection-moulded panels either side and below the first floor windows (which themselves are three-pane sashes). Further outshut additions have cambered-headed windows with 2x4 panes. The left-hand side shows a projecting flank with a ground floor four-light French window and a tripartite first floor window, as on the right. A colourwashed brick wing to the left includes a five-light ground floor window and horned sash windows to the first floor. The rear features a projecting gabled wing, its windows largely obscured by later additions.

Inside, an early 18th-century staircase rises in two flights, with crisply carved spiral-on-vase balusters, a moulded ramped handrail, and ramped dado panelling with fluted pilaster-newels. Moulded tread-ends and a bowed balcony are on the landing. Pine panelling and cornices are found in several first-floor rooms.