Oakley

Oakley is a large house built in 1866 in the Gothic style, featuring large bargeboards reminiscent of the work of James Brooks. The house is constructed from Bargate stone and has a tiled roof with seven brick chimneystacks. It is an asymmetrical building with two storeys and attics, comprising seven windows with irregular fenestration.

The northwest corner of the house has a projecting gable with elaborate wooden bargeboards enclosing a trefoil. The attic features a double mullioned sash window, while the first floor has a triple mullioned sash window and the ground floor has a triple mullioned and transomed casement window. The side elevation includes a tall external brick stack with blank shield decoration below and two large carved bargeboards above the first-floor windows.

To the left, there is a set-back section with four bays and one gabled dormer. A two-light window to the right is obscured by a large gabled porch that has ornamented bargeboards and a stone quatrefoil above a two-centred arched doorway with decorative spandrels. There is also a four-light mullioned and transomed staircase window, followed by a gable with a first-floor jettied section that has a four-light window above and a three-light window below. The sixth bay projects forward with a tall external stack that incorporates a bell and a half-hipped gable with arched bargeboards.

Inside, the house features an oak well staircase with turned balusters and chamfered newel posts, an oak fireplace with scrollwork panels and a pink marble surround, and a lounge with linenfold panelling and a fireplace supported by clustered octagonal columns. A late 20th-century addition to the west is noted but is not of special interest.