Oakleigh House

Oakleigh House is a town house that now serves as both a residence and offices. It was built in the mid-18th century and mid-19th century. The building features squared coursed limestone with an 18th-century brick facade and a 19th-century brick rear section. It has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys tall with an attic. The main front has a five-window range, with a central six-panel door framed by a moulded wood doorcase that includes reeded pilasters, a frieze with triglyphs and metopes, and a dentilled cornice above. The door is topped with a rectangular fanlight that has glazing bars arranged in diamonds and roundels. The windows are unhorned sash types, featuring glazing bars and set beneath gauged brick heads with keyblocks. There are shallow brick pilasters at both ends of the facade. The building has a rendered plinth and a flight of moulded steps leading to the door. A moulded cornice and flat-topped roof dormers with sash windows are also present. The gable parapets are made of ashlar, and there is a truncated brick stack at one end. To the left of the main front, there is a single-storey brick building that has a 20th-century canted shop window and an 18th-century timber-framed side wall. The rear elevation is a mid-19th-century brick structure with a three-window range, featuring unhorned sash windows on the first floor and 20th-century openings on the ground floor. A mid-18th-century central staircase projection is visible above the mid-19th-century extensions. Inside, the entrance hall contains a wide staircase with a half-landing and a stick balustrade. The hall may feature 18th-century panelling, and the window reveals are fielded panelled.