Oak House

Oak House is a house dating from the mid-17th century, with later alterations in the late 19th century. It is timber-framed, now plastered and roughcast, with steeply pitched plain tiled roofs and slate on a service range. The main range comprises three rooms, with a cross-gabled parlour extending to the rear, forming an 'L' on plan. Originally, a detached three-bay service range now links at right angles to the front left. The house has two storeys and attics.

The parlour projects slightly to the front, and the facade is divided by 19th-century plaster panels and a storey band. The original entrance has been blocked. There are three-light leaded casements with transoms to the ground floor on the right, all with simple plaster architraves. An offset brick plinth is present, alongside boxed eaves. The parlour has 19th-century consoles to the wall plates and a two-light window in the attic. Over the hall is a three-light gabled dormer. The axial ridge stack between the hall and parlour features a cornice to the foot and three diagonally set shafts, with an additional shaft added to the left in the 19th century. The left gable end reveals exposed side purlins. The right return has leaded casements in the rear bay, a moulded cornice band, and an inserted stack. At the rear, there are similar casements, with some lattice lights to the parlour. Behind the main stack is a 19th-century lean-to entrance porch with steps leading to a recessed, part glazed and part raised fielded six-panelled door, raised panelled reveals, a doorcase with fluted pilasters and a lintel with roundels at the angles, and a projecting mutule blocked hood. An inserted stack is located at the rear of the service bay in the main range.

A boarded link, with coving to the upper storey, connects the main range to a two-storey, 17th-century service range to the left, largely rebuilt and reroofed in the 19th century. The inner elevation of the service range has an architraved boarded door towards the main range, three-light glazing bar casements, boxed eaves, and a 19th-century internal stack at the front end with red and white brick shafts. The roof has a shallow pitch. To the rear of the service range is a slate-roofed lean-to outshut, above a blocked hatch opening.

Inside, much of the timber frame is concealed. The hall has crossed chamfered binding beams, and the parlour ‘wing’ was originally two rooms containing stop chamfered binding beams. The upper storeys were not inspected. The service range retains some early framing, including jowled posts and stop chamfered cross axial binding beams.