Croft House And Attached Outbuilding

SJ 67 SW 4/33

CUDDINGTON C.P. WEAVERHAM ROAD (East Side) Sandiway

No. 84 (Croft House) and No. 45 (Croft House) NORLEY ROAD and attached outbuildings

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Pair of estate cottages: dated 1906 by and for John Douglas. English garden wall bond pink brick with buff terracotta dressings, upper storey timber-framed with plastered infill, purple tile roof with 2 ridge brick chimneys with pilasters. 2-storey symmetrical 4-bay south front. Upper storey has large panels with arch braces on a continuous bressumer decorated with roundels and inscribed

FEAR GOD HONOUR THE KING LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD

It contains 2 timber-framed half dormers with pairs of 2-light wooden casements with baluster decoration below and tiebeams inscribed JD and STD in Gothick lettering. End bays below have 4-light. terracotta windows with basket arched heads and turned column baluster mullions. Central pair of bays recessed and bressumer carried on a braced wooden post. Single lights in reveals and 4-light windows with segmental heads in main portion. Date on gable end and entry to rear. Attached by a coped brick wall to the rear is a pair of 1-storey outbuildings (wash house and toilet) in similar materials. Interior: no special features. Also part of Douglas's Village Green, with the church and nos. 80 and 82 Weaverham Road.

Listing NGR: SJ 60534 71172