Oak Tree House

A detached house, dating from 1873, designed by Basil Champneys for Henry Holiday, a stained glass artist. The house is constructed of red brick with a tall, hipped tiled roof, segmental pedimented dormers (with 20th-century glazing), tall panelled brick chimney stacks, and a coved eaves cornice.

The house has two storeys and an attic, and originally had three windows plus a single window to a recessed, two-storey entrance bay. The entrance features a wooden doorcase with fluted pilasters and enriched console brackets supporting a cornice hood, an overlight, and a six-panelled door. Above the door is an inset date plaque carved with an oak tree. The first floor features a three-light Venetian-style window. The main bays have large, projecting square bays with transom and mullion windows, French windows, and a radial patterned fanlight to the left, and a projecting polygonal bay with transom and mullion windows to the right. The first floor windows have gauged brick flat arches, flush frame sashes with exposed boxing, and segmental shaped brick aprons. A garden return features a projecting pedimented portico and similar windows, with a lower, slightly projecting bay featuring brick pilasters and a three-light canted bay rising through the ground and first floors. A second-floor addition was made later.

The interior, which was not inspected, is noted to retain original panelling, fireplaces, and an open-well staircase with square newels and turned balusters.

Henry Holiday was a stained glass artist of considerable repute during the late 19th century, designing for many churches.