Oxton Hall

Oxton Hall is a small country house with an early 18th-century core, featuring extensive early 19th-century rebuilding and restorations from around 1985. The building is constructed of reddish-brown brick with a Tadcaster limestone facade and has a Welsh slate roof. It has a central-entrance hall plan and is two storeys tall with seven bays, including a three-bay central projection.

The facade includes a plinth and a central single-storey portico with four Greek Doric columns, a frieze adorned with triglyphs, a modillion cornice, and a low parapet. The entrance features part-glazed double doors with an overlight that has vertical glazing bars. On either side of the entrance are tall 8-pane sash windows with aprons, while the rest of the house has 12-pane sashes, with ground floor windows having aprons and first floor windows having sills. The first floor of the central projection has round-headed niches between the windows. There is a moulded cornice, a low parapet on the sides, and a pediment at the center. The hipped roof has ridge stacks.

On the garden front, there is an ironwork veranda at ground level supported by fluted columns and an ornamental frieze. The rear features several openings with flat arches made of red rubbed brick, which have ashlar keystones and red brick quoined jambs. A round-arched window with Gothick glazing is located on the stable yard side, along with a carriage arch that has later infill.

Inside, the house was extensively remodelled in the early 19th century and includes many notable features such as a cantilevered staircase with a wrought-iron lattice-work balustrade and a wreathed handrail. The service staircase has rod-on-vase balusters. The panelled entrance hall boasts ornate door-cases with friezes decorated with mythological beasts, and the cornice features ornamental guttae. The interior mainly consists of six-fielded-panel doors throughout, with further panelled rooms on either side that include marble fireplaces. Additional features include various fireplaces and ornate shutters.