Oakworth house was a large Italianate villa built from 1864–74 by architect George Smith at a cost of £80,000 for Sir Isaac Holden.

[1] In 1907, ten years after Sir Isaac's death in 1897, the house was partially destroyed in a fire and was demolished.

[citation needed] In 2011 the summerhouse, known locally as the 'bear house' was restored by The Friends of Holden Park with monies from CNet's grassroots fund.

)—Sir Isaac's great grandson[6] at a fun day to celebrate the Queen's diamond jubilee.

Past the grottoes and caves there is a large grassed area that used to be the vegetable garden for the house and was later a putting green, and above this are the woods, with many paths originally laid out by Holden.