Oak House is a Grade II* listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. A Georgian House. 1 related planning application.
Oak House
- WRENN ID
- inner-stronghold-claret
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1950
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SY 29 98 AXMINSTER CHARD STREET 1/20 (north west side) 11.8.50 Oak House GV II*
Built in 1758 by Simon Bunter, an Axminster Lawyer. Fine red brick house with stone dressings. Slate mansard roof with gabled ends. Parapet with putti and urns, modillion cornice and rusticated quoins. 1:3:1 bays. Centre three bays break forward with quoins. Sash windows with thick glazing bars in eaved moulded architraves. Centre first floor Venetian window with Ionic pilasters entablature and arched centre light. Similar central doorway below with round-headed fanlight and entablature continued over side lights with pilasters, and with modern panelled door.
Five flat roofed dormers with sashes. Rendered chimney stacks at gable ends. Three storey, one bay wing set back to left and right, the right hand one has large segmental fanlight to doorway. Rear elevation has range of C18 sash windows.
Interior: good contemporary open-well staircase with open string, three balusters per tread and moulded soffit. C18 carved wooden chimneypiece and moulded plaster ceiling cornices.
Listing NGR: SY2985098677
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