Description

TQ 32 SW
4/135
10.9.51

HAYWARDS HEATH
OATHALL ROAD
No 70 (Oat Hall House)
(formerly listed as Oat Hall)

II

Offices, formerly house. c1840, Neo-Classical Style. Stuccoed with incised
lines to imitate masonry on sandstone plinth. Hipped slate roof. Consists
of centre portion of 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows, flanked by wings of
1 storey, 1 window. Paired bracketed wooden eaves cornice to centre part.
1st floor has 3 cambered headed sashes with marginal glazing bars. Ground floor
has 2 large French windows in cambered surrounds with decorative fanlights and
tripartite doors. Central porch with fluted Doric columns, pediment and wreath
decoration to frieze. Cambered fanlight with panelled reveals and moulded double
doors up 3 stone steps. Tall end stuccoed chimney stacks. South west wing
has 2 light round-headed French windows. North east wing has round-headed blank
with rusticated surround with mutule frieze above and 3 light bays to side
elevation. No 68, attached to right hand side and probably a former outbuilding
altered in C20 is not of special interest. Interior of Oat Hall House has arch
to stairhall hall with Greek key design, 3 doorcases with pediments flanked
by acroteria with wreath in centre, frieze with central patera flanked by sideways
on anthemions and lions' head masks to ends, and wheat ear drops to architraves.
6 fielded panelled doors. Ground floor has original fireplaces, one with Grecian
motifs, one with fluted columns. Bowed staircase hall having cornice with
alternate wreaths and brackets, and staircase with mahogany handrail and stick
balusters.

Listing NGR: TQ3369624698

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26276383

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