Firtree Cottage

Firtree Cottage is an estate cottage dated 1865, designed by William Nesfield. It is built of red English bond brick with fishscale tile hanging and features a plain tile roof. The entrance front has a projecting wing on the right, which includes a square bay window on the ground floor with four casement lights. Above this, the first floor jetties out, supported by moulded wooden brackets resting on stone corbels. The first floor is tile-hung with hammer-headed tiles that are bellcast at the lower edge. In the center, there are two 2-light casement windows with a central cement panel between them, which is the size of one of the lights. This panel features incised pargetting with the date "AD/1865" at the top and the initial "C" (for Crewe) surmounted by a coronet. The balls of the baron's coronet are made of green glass bottlenecks, and the panel is decorated with floral patterns around the edges.

Above is a half-hipped roof with a large three-flue chimney stack at the ridge. To the left of the main wing is a recessed lean-to porch, which has a basket-arched doorway on the right and a cusped lancet light on the left with bullseye glass panes. The left side of the cottage features another projecting wing with a 5-light casement window on the ground floor and a 4-light casement window above it, both hung with hammer-headed tiles that are bellcast at the lower edge. The gable displays incised pargetting with sunflowers and foliage, a rising sun motif in the center, and pies at the apex. To the right of this projecting wing is the side of the lean-to porch, which has two rectangular panels of incised pargetting showing floral motifs, again set with bottlenecks and a bottle bottom of green glass, although this had unfortunately been overpainted by the time of the resurvey in 1985. There is a service court at the rear.