Oak House

TL 7886 10/7 7.5.54

BRANDON HIGH STREET No.70 (Oak House)

II*

House, formerly Inn. c.1730. Double-pile plan. 5 windows, 2 storeys with attics. Gault brick with limestone modillion eaves cornice at front and rear and string at 1st floor. 2-span roof, front section glazed pantiled, rear section Roman pantiled and slated. Elliptical headed dormers with small-pane casements. Parapet gables with gable chimneys of gault brick. Sash windows with segmental arched heads of gauged brick; the sashes at 1st floor having original small panes and thick bars, those at ground floor renewed with large panes. C18 entrance doorway: a moulded broken pediment on console brackets. Recessed within the doorway is a semicircular fanlight with thick radial bars. Limestone steps. C19 half-glazed panelled door. Good original staircase with moulded handrail and turned balusters. The entrance hall and 4 other rooms have good joinery and moulded cornices of early C18. One parlour has full fielded panelling; two 1st floor rooms have full-height reused early C17 wainscotting, one with a strapwork frieze at cornice level. 2 rooms have good fireplace surrounds.

Listing NGR: TL7839086774