Oak Cottage And Little Oak

Oak Cottage and Little Oak are two cottages dating from the early 18th century, located on Bristol Road in Chippenham. They were originally part of Oak Lodge and feature a late 19th-century rear wing known as Little Oak, which is now in separate occupation. The cottages are constructed of limestone rubble with freestone dressings and have a stone slate roof, which includes a 20th-century dormer on the left and a stack at the left gable end.

The exterior is two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window range. The left side features two- and three-light stone-mullioned windows with hoodmoulds above the first-floor 19th-century two-pane casement windows. To the right, there is a 20th-century door and window. The late 19th-century rear wing has two-over-two pane sash windows.

Inside, the cottages share an ashlar party wall that originally contained a spiral staircase on each side; the staircase in the left-hand cottage remains intact with elm treads, while only fixing slots are left in the right-hand cottage. The party wall has been altered with a 20th-century pointed-arched oak door. Each cottage features a chamfered cross-beam with run-out stops; the left cottage has an open fire with an oak lintel. The first floor and attic have elm floorboards, and each cottage has a two-bay collar-truss roof with trenched purlins on the right and tenoned purlins on the left. In the 20th-century lean-to at the rear, there is a moulded hood on brackets that once covered a front door.