Dacre House Oak Cottage Oak House

Dacre House, Oak House, and Oak Cottage are a pair of houses and a cottage located on Main Street in Ripley. They were built in the mid to late 18th century and underwent some early 19th-century alterations. The buildings are constructed from coursed squared gritstone and ashlar, topped with a grey slate roof. They are two storeys high, with each house featuring three bays and two rooms deep, and are accented with quoins.

The facades of the buildings are identical, each featuring a central six-panel door, with the top two panels glazed, set beneath a flat hood supported by console brackets. Flanking the door are 16-pane sash windows in surrounds with tie-stone jambs. Above, there are three almost square upper windows for each house, which are unevenly hung 12-pane sashes with plain surrounds. A projecting band runs at the level of the ground-floor window sills. The gables have copings, and there are slightly projecting end stacks along with a large six-flue stack located at the rear of the ridge, at the center. The roofs are M-shaped.

To the far left, there is a lower bay with a shop entrance that is not of special interest. The left-hand double-fronted house is Dacre House, while the right-hand house, which has a bay to its left, is Oak House. The far right bay is Oak Cottage, which is accessed from the rear of the building. This area was formerly the Oak Inn, which closed around 1915. The architectural style of these buildings is very similar to that of Chantry House, and they predate the early 19th-century rebuilding of the village, possibly indicating an earlier rebuilding effort that began in the 18th century.