Oak Vale, With Boundary Wall, 15 Metres South East

ST7219 HENSTRIDGE CP VALE STREET (North side)

10/104 Oak Vale, with boundary wall, 15 metres South East (Oak Vale previously listed)

24.3.61 II

Detached house. Early C19, Tudor origins. Local stone cut and squared, with ashlar dressings; stone slate roof with simple gables; brick chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Rusticated ashlar quoins, 16-pane sash windows to ground and first floor, 12-pane to second, all set flush, with 5-stone voussoired flat heads; to bay 3 a 6 flush-panel door set in semi-circular arched recess with Regency style fanlight; to East a lower 2 storey extension in coursed rubble with stone slate roof and brick stack with double 18-pane sash window to lower bay 1 and plain casement windows of 3 and 2-light to upper bays. Interior not seen. Front boundary wall about 1 metre high, of squared stone with simple coping, with square piers with plain tops and ball finials to West end and two gateways; to South East opposite door pair wrot iron gates with barbed spearheads to lower and top rail, both rails concave curved: contributes considerably to setting of this house, on the edge of the settlement. Said to be a Tudor fare settlement, but major part of house rebuilt 1815 using some materials from Stalbridge House (Wakeford, A History of Henstridge, 1953).

Listing NGR: ST7258419980