Oak Tree House

House. Built in the early 19th century and extended around 1860. The exterior is stucco over rubble and stucco over brick, with granite sills. It has a Spanish slate roof with brick chimneys on the gable ends, and a plain parapet to the front of the original left-hand section, and wide eaves to the front of the later section. The house has a double-depth plan, with two equal reception rooms flanking a central passage. This passage leads to a central staircase between service rooms at the rear: a kitchen on the left, extended slightly to the rear around 1860, and a pantry on the right. A large drawing room was added to the right-hand (north-east) side of the house around 1860. Original cellars are built into the bank at the rear. The house is two storeys high and has a five-window front, composed of a symmetrical three-window front on the left, and a regular two-window garden front of the drawing room, which is set back slightly on the right. The original front has a central doorway with a two-panelled door and an original lattice-paned overlight. The doorway is framed by wooden panelled pilasters topped by a large hood with a moulded cornice, supported by moulded brackets. The original windows are hornless sashes with glazing bars, featuring 20 panes on the taller ground floor windows and 16 panes on the first floor. The windows to the right are original 12-pane horned sashes dating to around 1860. A round-headed stair window with ogee tracery is located at the rear. The interior is largely original, featuring 19th-century carpentry and joinery, including niches to piers in the front wall, six-panel doors with moulded architraves, window shutters, moulded plaster ceiling cornices and bands to the reception rooms, an egg and dart cornice and central rose in the drawing room, a stick baluster staircase with square newel caps, engaged columns to the opening between the left-hand room and the kitchen, and a resited fireplace in the original right-hand room.