Oak Lodge — Talbotsinch

Detached three-bay two-storey Arts-and-Crafts-style mill manager's house, built 1896-9, on an L-shaped plan with canted bay window to right ground floor, single-bay single-storey chamfered re-entrant entrance bay leading into single-bay two-storey projecting end bay to left having two-storey box bay window, and two-bay single-storey wing to right having canted bay window to left. Extended, c.1975, comprising two-bay two-storey end block to left with canted bay window to right ground floor. Now in private residential use. Pitched slate roofs (on an L-shaped plan to main block) with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Common (sixth course headers) bond chimney stacks on rendered bases with paired and grouped (three-part arrangement) round-headed recesses, sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves (having paired consoles to canted bay windows). Ivy-clad unpainted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings (including to bay windows; one oculus window opening to projecting end bay having painted red brick surround incorporating keystones; corner window opening to wing) with cut-limestone shallow sills, and timber casement windows having leaded glazing. Square-headed door opening in tripartite arrangement on a canted plan on three cut-limestone flagged red brick soldier bond steps with glazed timber panelled double doors having fixed-pane sidelights (leading to glazed timber panelled double internal doors). Set back from road in own grounds with landscaped grounds to site.