Oak House

Oak House is a fine red brick house built in 1758 by Simon Bunter, an Axminster lawyer. It features stone dressings and a slate mansard roof with gabled ends. The building has a parapet adorned with putti and urns, a modillion cornice, and rusticated quoins. The facade is arranged in a 1:3:1 bay pattern, with the central three bays projecting forward and accented by quoins. The sash windows have thick glazing bars and are set in eaved moulded architraves. The first floor has a central Venetian window with Ionic pilasters, an entablature, and an arched centre light. Below this, there is a similar doorway with a round-headed fanlight and an entablature that continues over the sidelights, supported by pilasters, leading to a modern panelled door.

The house includes five flat-roofed dormers with sash windows and rendered chimney stacks at the gable ends. There are also two three-storey, one-bay wings set back to the left and right, with the right-hand wing featuring a large segmental fanlight above its doorway. The rear elevation has a range of 18th-century sash windows.

Inside, the house boasts a good contemporary open-well staircase with an open string, three balusters per tread, and a moulded soffit. There is also an 18th-century carved wooden chimneypiece and moulded plaster ceiling cornices.