Oran House

Oran House is a house, now divided into three dwellings, dating to around 1830, with later additions. It is constructed of brick in an English garden wall bond, with ashlar dressings and a Westmorland slate roof, and is built in a Jacobethan style. The house is two storeys with attics, originally six bays wide, though the three bays on the right are set back, and the three on the left have gables. It features chamfered rusticated quoins. Bays two to six have brick relieving arches over openings, with a continuous drip mould to the ground floor and a continuous hood mould to the first floors of the second and third bays. A brick plinth runs along the first bay, while a stone plinth is present on the third bay.

The first bay, set back and likely slightly later, has a sash window with glazing bars on the ground floor and a two-light mullion and transom window with a Jacobean-style balustraded balcony and hood mould on the first floor. A blind, chamfered vent is situated in the gable. To the left is a return with an added two-storey canted bay window. The second bay has a Tudor-arched portal leading to a six-panel door with over- and margin-lights; above this is a mullion-and-transom oriel window with a parapet, and a small lancet window in the gable. The third bay, slightly set back, has a ground-floor canted bay window flanked by small sash windows; a three-light window sits on the first floor, within a chamfered surround, and a small lancet with an extended hood mould is in the gable.

Oversailing eaves and cusped bargeboards adorn the gables, with pendants on some bays. An ashlar ridge stack rises between the second and third bays. On the ground floor of the right return of the third bay, there is a blocked pointed-arched doorway under a hood mould. The right three bays, from left to right on the ground floor, feature a continuous hood mould. Here are found a C20 part-glazed door in a partly-blocked chamfered doorway, a four-light sashed window in a chamfered surround with a hood mould, and an inserted sash window. The first floor has a sill band, and features a four-pane sash window in an altered opening, alongside two two-light sashed windows in chamfered surrounds under the gabled eaves, consistent with the main block. A dormer window sits over the fourth bay, and an ashlar stack is positioned between bays five and six.

The left return, added to the original house, has three bays, with the outer two being two-storey canted bays on ashlar plinths, featuring mullion-and-transom windows, double drip moulds, and ashlar parapets. A blocked doorway is centrally positioned.

Inside, there is a cantilevered stone staircase, semi-elliptical in plan, with fluted, tapering cast-iron balusters rising from acanthus buds with Gothic tracery beneath moulded wooden handrails. A contemporary timber servants' staircase is also present, with bracketed open strings and plain balusters. The doors and doorway linings are panelled and have pointed-arched tops to the upper row of panels.