Listed Building: Oakleigh House (1226852)

Town house, now house and offices. Mid C18 and mid C19. Squared coursed limestone with C18 brick façade and C19 brick rear range. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys with attic. Main front of 5-window range. Central 6-panel door with moulded wood doorcase having reeded pilasters, frieze with triglyphs and metopes, and dentilled cornice over. Rectangular fanlight with glazing bars forming diamonds and roundels. Unhorned sash windows, with glazing bars, under gauged brick heads with keyblocks. Shallow brick pilasters to far left and right. Rendered plinth and flight of moulded steps to door. Moulded cornice and 3 flat-topped roof dormers with sash windows. Ashlar gable parapets and truncated brick stack at end. One-unit single-storey brick building attached to left of main front has C20 canted shop window and C18 timber-framed side wall. Rear elevation is a mid C19, brick, 3-window range with unhorned sash windows at first floor and C20 openings to ground floor. Mid C18 central staircase projection is visible above mid C19 extensions. Interior: entrance hall has wide staircase with half-landing and stick balustrade. Panelling in hall may be C18. Fielded panelled window reveals.

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May 26 2023 10:22AM