Oakley Park

The origins of the present house are a mansion rebuilt and extended by William Baker for the 1st Earl of Powis in the mid-18th century. In 1771, Powis sold the estate to Robert Clive, Clive of India, who engaged William Haycock to undertake rebuilding. Following Clive's death in 1774, his son, Edward, engaged Haycock's son, John Hiram Haycock to undertake further extensions for Clive's mother, Margaret, who continued to live at the property until her death in 1817. By the time of his mother's death, Edward had been created Earl of Powis, having married Henrietta Herbert, daughter of the Henry Herbert who had sold the Oakly estate to his father. Having inherited Powis Castle through his…

Oakly is of brick and ashlar, three storeys high with attics and a basement. Newman and Pevsner in their revised Shropshire volume of the Buildings of England, consider five rooms of note. The vestibule is a circular room dating from the younger Haycock's work, although Cockerell added a "saucer dome". The staircase hall is entirely his, Oakly Park is a Grade II* listed building Other listed structures within the estate, all designated Grade II, include the balustrade in the forecourt, the stables, the lodge and gates at the start of the carriage drive and a bridge on the carriage drive where it crosses the River Teme.