Oxclose

Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1675, extended and heightened c. 1750 and in nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with box-bay windows flanking central doorway, and single-storey lean-to flanking additions. Hipped artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls, with coursed rubble exposed under decayed render to additions. Squared-headed window openings having rendered sills and replacement uPVC windows. Box-bay windows have hipped slate roofs and square-headed timber casement windows, flanking central door opening. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to west gable. Round-headed door opening having timber panelled door with spoked fanlight and flanked by Ionic-style limestone engaged columns with carved decoration to capitals imitating Ionic style, approached by three limestone steps. Square-headed openings with timber doors to additions. Approached by driveway from the south. Curved entrance with limestone ashlar walls and copings, terminating in square-profile piers with pointed caps and wrought-iron gates, with limestone wheel guards.

This middle-sized eighteenth-century house originally functioned as a seasonal hunting lodge but now functions as a house with farm behind. The building's balanced façade is a reflection of Georgian interest in symmetrical form and regular proportions. The building is attractively set in partially landscaped grounds on a slight elevation to the west of Newmarket town. The house retains interesting features such as the simple fanlight and the projecting bays to either side of the ornate door surround.