Oakley is a historic home and farm located near Upperville,

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History

It was built between 1853 and 1857, and is a -story, three bay, "T"-shaped brick

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...

style dwelling with a cross-gable roof. The house sits on an

English basement An English basement is an apartment (flat in UK English) on the lowest floor of a building, generally a townhouse or brownstone, which is partially below and partially above ground level and which has its own entrance separate from those of the r ...

and features tall decorative paneled chimneys, semi-hexagonal bays in each gable end, a central two-story pavilion, and a glazed

cupola In architecture, a cupola () is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome. The word derives, via Italian, fro ...

. Also on the property are the contributing original

smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more.

and an early building, possibly a tenant house. The house was built by Colonel Richard Henry Dulany and the property is located near the site of the Upperville Colt & Horse Show first held in June 1852. It remains the oldest such event in America. an
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in 1983.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Italianate architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1857 Houses in Fauquier County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Fauquier County, Virginia 1857 establishments in Virginia {{FauquierCountyVA-NRHP-stub