Oatlands Drive

This is a pair of houses, numbers 1 and 3 Oatlands Drive, located in Weybridge, built around 1880 by R. Norman Shaw. Number 1 is a house, and Number 3 is a house which has been divided.

Number 1 is constructed of red brick in English bond, with the first floor tile-hung with fish-scale tiles and plain-tile offsets, and has a plain tile roof. The house is one storey high with two attic storeys. It has three bays, with the central bay projecting slightly under a curvilinear gable. The windows are wooden, mullioned with leaded casements. The central bay features a small-pane part-glazed panelled door and a three-light window below a brick cornice. Above this is a five-light window with a moulded brick sill and cornice. To the right is a three-light window, and to the left is a bay window of seven by two lights with a transom and flat roof, and a four-light window above the eaves underneath the gable. A central, hipped-roofed dormer is present. Tall corniced stacks are situated on the ridge between the right bays, and externally at the left end. The rear elevation features steps leading to a central double door with a three-light overlight, a two-light window, and a 20th-century porch addition to the left. There’s a flat-roofed bay window with an inserted central double door to the right. Two gabled three-light dormers and two hipped-roofed dormers are also present. A bracketed four-light window is located to the left of the stack on the ground and lower attic floors on the left return, with one window to the right on the lower attic floor. The right return has a segmental arched window and door on the ground floor; the gable features two windows to the lower attic floor and one above. The interior has not been inspected.

Number 3 has a steeply pitched plain tiled roof with tall stacks to the right of centre and to the left end. The house is one storey high with two attics, the upper attic within hip-roofed dormers, and two lower dormers at eaves level. It has tile hanging to the left gable and a brick segmental shaped pediment to the right. The windows feature leaded casements. A square bay is present on the ground floor left. A panelled and part-glazed door is situated in a break to the right of centre, under a moulded brick string course. The left-hand return front has two projecting, pentice-roofed windows on centre brackets. The rear features a central shaped gable break with an angle bay window to the ground floor left.