Croxdale Wood House

CROXDALE AND HETT CROXDALE WOOD NZ 23 NE 6/59 Croxdale Wood House II House. Mid C18 farmhouse with c. 1860 wing. Squared sandstone rubble; upper floor of wing dressed sandstone. Welsh slate roofs but with stone flags on rear of original farmhouse. Rendered chimney stacks. L-plan: farmhouse with large added wing projecting at right-angles on left. 2-storey, 3-bay original house has central blocked doorway flanked by replaced sashes with projecting sills. Roof has stone-coped right gable and tall central ridge stack. Slightly taller, 2-storey, 3-bay wing has 9-panel door and 2-pane side lights in flush ashlar surround. Replaced sashes with projecting sills elsewhere. Roof has overhanging eaves and verges, the latter with wavy bargeboards. Stone-mullioned windows on left return: 3-light with trefoiled heads on ground floor and 2-light above. Two wide canted bays on rear of wing: ground-floor windows with 4-centred heads and 15-pane sashes; square-headed 12-pane sashes above. Each bay has a low-pitched hipped roof with overhanging eaves on exposed beams. The house was extended in mid C19 when the Salvin family leased Croxdale Hall (q.v.) and moved to Croxdale Wood.

Listing NGR: NZ2794238569