Crook Hall

GOOSTREY C.P. BOMISH LANE SJ 77 SE

2/26 Crook Hall

14.2.67

GV II*

Farmhouse, late C16. Red brick, in English garden wall bond, with stone slate roof. 2 storeys and attic, 5 bays, gabled. 3 bay returns with side gables near the rear. Flush stone quoins and narrow Elizabethan bricks. Replaced 2-and-3-light flush casements, under elliptical arches, with continuous narrow brick drip band above ground floor and first floor windows. Added late C19 gabled brick porch with 4-panel door, bargeboards and stone slate roof. The facade has three symmetrical gables with some exposed oak timbers and added barge boards and finials. Both the 3 bay returns have four blocked window openings and the north-east side gable has in addition a fully timbered gable in close panelling. Side gables have barge boards and stacks with diagonally set flues. At the rear (north-east) there is a single blocked window and added C19 lean-to. Interior: Double boarded and studded entrance doors on strap hinges. Inglenook beam. Timber framing in internal wall. Six-panel oak doors on "H" hinges and "HL" hinges. Wide double boarded door on strap hinges leads to cellar. Stop chamfered beams. Closed string staircase with spiral twisted balusters, moulded handrail and ball finials to the square newels. Mainly six-panel oak doors at first floor level. The roof has trusses with queen posts, only one door width apart, original purlins, ridge tree and rafters.

Listing NGR: SJ7853772004