Dacre House Oak Cottage Oak House

SE 2860-2960 8/76 15.3.66

RIPLEY MAIN STREET (west side) Dacre House, Oak House, and Oak Cottage (formerly listed as Dacre House and house attached to Dacre House)

GV II

Pair of houses, now 2 houses and cottage. Mid-late C18 with early C19 alterations. Coursed squared gritstone and ashlar; grey slate roof. 2 storeys, each house of 3 bays and 2 rooms deep. Quoins. The facades are identical: a central 6-panel door, the top 2 panels glazed, under a flat hood carried on console brackets, is flanked by 16-pane sashes in surrounds with tie-stone jambs; the 3 almost square upper windows to each house are unevenly hung 12-pane sashes and have plain surrounds. There is a projecting band at ground-floor window sill level. Gable copings; slightly projecting end stacks and a large 6-flue stack rear of ridge, centre. M- shaped roof. Lower bay to far left with shop entrance, not of special interest. The left-hand double-fronted house is Dacre House; the right-hand door with bay to its left is Oak House, and the far right bay is Oak Cottage, reached from the rear of the building. The former Oak Inn, it was closed in c1915. The style is very similar to Chantry House; these buildings predate the early C19 rebuilding of the village and are possibly evidence of an earlier rebuilding begun in the C18.

Listing NGR: SE2839160481