Oak Grove House And Attached Front Walls, Royal Military Academy

SANDHURST

SU86SE LONDON ROAD 674-1/18/170 (North West side) 20/12/72 Oak Grove House and attached front walls, Royal Military Academy (Formerly Listed as: SANDHURST Oak Grove House to west-south-west of main building)

GV II

Officer's house. Dated 1810, by John Sanders, architect, extended 1950. MATERIALS: Painted render with ridge and front lateral stacks and slate hipped roof. PLAN: double depth plan. STYLE: late Georgian style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement, 1:3-window range. Originally square plan with matching 3-window sides, moulded first floor cill band, cornice and parapet, now with side one window C20 extension. Entrance front has steps, with wrought iron rail to right and ramped, coped wall to left, up to right hand porch with moulded coping, narrow flat headed doorway with overlight and 6-panel door, and iron overthrow lantern, to left shallow single storey section projects with 3 narrow lights. Ground floor windows have architraves with cornices, first floor windows have eared architraves, to recessed 6/6-pane sashes, blind window above the porch, with 2 reeded lead hoppers to left inscribed G III R/1810. INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having a dogleg stair from an entrance lobby. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached basement area wall extends along the right hand return, with corner moulded cast iron lamp base. HISTORY: with Lake House (qv), one of a pair of matching lodges to the Old College (qv), for the Paymaster at the college, and part of a fine group. (PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: Oakgrove House: 1950-: ALD/248; Country Life: Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst: London: 1969-: 1662; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Berkshire: 1966-: 211).