Oddington House

Oddington House is a country house dating back to the 17th century, with significant alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries, remodelled around 1810 by Lady Reade. It is constructed of ashlar with a slate roof and ashlar stacks. The house features a plan incorporating a 17th-century core, encased within a rectangular early 19th-century body. A projecting portico faces the garden, while a projecting porch fronts the current entrance. An 18th-century summer house is attached to the left and a further 18th-century wing extends to the rear left. A general restoration took place around 1870.

The garden front, which was formerly the entrance front, is Classical in style, with three storeys and nine bays. It has 8-pane French windows on the ground and first floors (some are blind), and plate glass sash windows with horns on the second floor. The central double doors, with marginal glazing bars and a fanlight, are under a portico featuring paired Doric columns. Above the doors is a bird motif with the motto "SECRET ET ARD", initials "JTR" below, and the inscription "RESTITUTA 1870”. Wrought iron balconies are present on the first-floor windows of the right-hand return. The main body has a parallel ridge roof, while the rear wing has a hipped roof.

Inside, the former entrance hall retains stone flag floors. A curving, oak open string staircase features three stick balusters per tread, decorated with painted gold and green. Its wreathed walnut handrail is inlaid with bands, and decorative brackets are positioned at the stair ends. A round-headed archway with swag decoration leads to the present entrance hall, with a niche displaying a scalloped head and swag to the right of the archway. The library houses a white marble fireplace flanked by single female figures, one holding a pipe and the other a lyre – a design similar to the Thomas Banks fireplace at Daylesford House. The drawing room also has a white marble fireplace with carved griffin reliefs above reeded columns framing a decorated grate from the same period. Niche spaces flank the fireplace, set within reeded borders. Brass door plates and door knobs, believed to be of French origin, are featured throughout the house, where original Regency cornices, doors, and architraves are largely preserved, particularly in the bedroom above the library. The interior decoration is comparable to that found at Daylesford House. A section of the 17th-century back stairs, with turned wood balusters, has been retained.

Oddington House was historically the seat of the Chamberlayne family and was remodelled around 1810 by Lady Reade, a friend of Warren Hastings. In 1868, it was inherited by the Talbot Rice family.