Oat Hall House

TQ 32 SW 4/135 10.9.51

HAYWARDS HEATH OATHALL ROAD No 70 (Oat Hall House) (formerly listed as Oat Hall)

II

Offices, formerly house. c1840, Neo-Classical Style. Stuccoed with incised lines to imitate masonry on sandstone plinth. Hipped slate roof. Consists of centre portion of 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows, flanked by wings of 1 storey, 1 window. Paired bracketed wooden eaves cornice to centre part. 1st floor has 3 cambered headed sashes with marginal glazing bars. Ground floor has 2 large French windows in cambered surrounds with decorative fanlights and tripartite doors. Central porch with fluted Doric columns, pediment and wreath decoration to frieze. Cambered fanlight with panelled reveals and moulded double doors up 3 stone steps. Tall end stuccoed chimney stacks. South west wing has 2 light round-headed French windows. North east wing has round-headed blank with rusticated surround with mutule frieze above and 3 light bays to side elevation. No 68, attached to right hand side and probably a former outbuilding altered in C20 is not of special interest. Interior of Oat Hall House has arch to stairhall hall with Greek key design, 3 doorcases with pediments flanked by acroteria with wreath in centre, frieze with central patera flanked by sideways on anthemions and lions' head masks to ends, and wheat ear drops to architraves. 6 fielded panelled doors. Ground floor has original fireplaces, one with Grecian motifs, one with fluted columns. Bowed staircase hall having cornice with alternate wreaths and brackets, and staircase with mahogany handrail and stick balusters.

Listing NGR: TQ3369624698