Oakhill Lawn

Oakhill Lawn is a villa dating from the 1820s or 1830s, with slight enlargement shortly after its construction. It is built of Flemish bond brick with a peg-tile roof and rendered stacks. The house faces south, with a rectangular double-depth plan, two rooms wide. The main block contains two rooms on each floor, arranged around a central passage and staircase. The ground floor rooms are heated by back-to-back fireplaces within the axial stacks, with the front rooms likely serving as drawing and dining rooms, the rear left room potentially a parlour, and the rear right room originally a butler's pantry, connected to a service stair leading down to the kitchen and service rooms in the half-basement, which has a separate entrance on the east elevation. In the 1840s, single-storey projecting bays were added to the left and right of the main block, expanding the two front principal rooms.

The villa is two storeys high with a half-basement and attic, featuring a hipped roof with deep eaves and axial stacks. The south front presents a symmetrical facade of three bays, with additional bays on the left and right. A stone staircase leads to a recessed, panelled front door with panelled reveals, a rectangular overlight with margin glazing, and a pediment. Early 19th-century 12-pane sash windows, with rubbed brick flat arches over both ground and first floors, are present. The half-basement has two-light casement windows, and there are flat-roofed dormers in the attic. The left and right bays each have a 12-pane sash, flanked by concrete pilasters, which may be later additions. The right bay has a concrete parapet with a moulded cornice, replaced by a plain parapet on the left bay. The left return of the left bay features an early 19th-century bowed tripartite sash window with 12 panes in the centre and 4-pane outer lights. The rear elevation retains its original early 19th-century sashes, and the rear door is from the 19th century, modified and half-glazed in the 20th century.

Interior features from the early and mid-19th century include a stick baluster staircase, doors and doorcases, shutters, skirtings, chimney-pieces, and cornices. Oakhill Lawn is a well-preserved example of an early 19th-century gentleman’s villa, with group value attributed alongside the early 19th-century coach house at the rear.