Oakleigh House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SP9978 THRAPSTON HIGH STREET (South side)

16/168 Oakleigh House 23/05/67

GV II

Town house, now house and offices. Mid C18 and mid C19. Squared coursed limestone with C18 brick facade 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 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.

Listing NGR: SP9957578646

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0060 IOE Records taken by Roger Ashley; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Roger Ashley. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project