Oat Hall House

Oat Hall House is a building located at 70 Oathall Road in Haywards Heath, dating from around 1840 and designed in the Neo-Classical style. The exterior is stuccoed with incised lines that mimic masonry, set on a sandstone plinth, and topped with a hipped slate roof. The main section of the house is two storeys high with a basement and features three windows, flanked by single-storey wings with one window each. The central part has a paired bracketed wooden cornice at the eaves.

On the first floor, there are three cambered-headed sash windows with marginal glazing bars. The ground floor boasts two large French windows in cambered surrounds, each with decorative fanlights and tripartite doors. A central porch is supported by fluted Doric columns and features a pediment with wreath decoration on the frieze. Above the porch, there is a cambered fanlight with panelled reveals and moulded double doors, accessed by three stone steps. The house has tall stuccoed chimney stacks at either end. The south-west wing includes two light round-headed French windows, while the north-east wing has a round-headed blank window with a rusticated surround and a mutule frieze above, along with three light bays on the side elevation.

Attached to the right side is No. 68, which was likely a former outbuilding and has been altered in the 20th century, but is not of special interest. Inside Oat Hall House, there is an arch leading to the stair hall decorated with a Greek key design. The interior features three doorcases with pediments flanked by acroteria, a frieze with a central patera surrounded by anthemions and lions' head masks, and wheat ear drops on the architraves. The ground floor includes six fielded panelled doors and original fireplaces, one featuring Grecian motifs and another with fluted columns. The bowed staircase hall has a cornice with alternating wreaths and brackets, and the staircase is fitted with a mahogany handrail and stick balusters.