Oak Wood House

Oak Wood House is a house that was later divided into two dwellings, dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The structure features a timber frame that is partly cased in brick and is largely plastered, with some exposed framing. It has a steeply pitched roof covered with patterned machine tiles and pantiles. The building originally had a cross passage plan and consists of three cells, with two storeys and an attic.

The entrance is now located in a lobby entry position to the left of centre, featuring a 20th-century gabled porch that incorporates old timber and a four-centred arched door head, likely from the original entrance. The upper floor of the porch has a jetty, and the gabled head displays herringbone brick nogging. To the left of the entrance, the parlour bay reveals midrail and first-floor close studding, with 20th-century two-light casements and horizontal sliding sashes. The hall and service bays were fronted in brick during the 19th century, with two-light glazing bar casements featuring a segmental head on the ground floor. A 18th-century ridge stack is located to the left of centre between the hall and parlour. The right gable end shows exposed struts connecting the tie beam to the collar, plates, and purlins, while the left gable end has exposed framing and a four-light ovolo mullioned window. There is a 20th-century one-storey gable-fronted extension attached to the left side.

At the rear, exposed studding can be seen on the first floor of the parlour bay, along with two-light casements and a 20th-century lean-to on the rear left. Inside, the hall features close studding with a midrail, a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, and a four-centred arched doorway leading from the screens passage into the service end. The 18th-century stack may have replaced a smoke hood. The parlour also has a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam and stop-chamfered joists towards the stack. On the first floor, cranked braces extend from jowled posts to cambered tie beams, with both straight and curved tension braces in the walling. The axial binding beams are bar stopped, and there are early four-light window openings with outer ovolo and inner fluted mullions over the parlour, along with cranked collars and halved principals clasping purlins and cranked windbraces.