Shaw Hill

This is a country mansion built in the early 1840s by Charles Reed for the Liverpool family T. Bright Crosse. It incorporates an earlier, smaller house, now used as a golf club, which forms the west front. The building is constructed of ashlar with hipped slate roofs hidden behind a parapet, and features various chimneys.

The main structure is square, with five bays, and has attached service wings on the east side. It is three storeys high, with horizontal bands at two levels, a prominent moulded cornice, and a plain parapet. The design is symmetrical; the main entrance is on the north side, beneath a porch that forms a slightly projecting centrepiece, featuring a Roman Doric colonnade of full width with antae at the corners. A modern glazed porch has replaced the original front door.

Most windows are sash windows with glazing bars. Ground floor windows have architraves and aprons, while those on the first floor have similar architraves and cornices, except for the centre window which has a segmental pediment on scrolled brackets. The second-floor windows are smaller and square.

A prominent feature of the west front is a large, semi-circular bay extending the full height of the building, reflecting the earlier house's design. This bay has three windows on each floor. Ground floor windows in the bay rise from ground level, with architraves and cornices. The flanking windows incorporate blind Wyatt windows with segmental architraves and scrolled keystones. First-floor windows in the bay have eared architraves, while those on either side have architraves with cornices. The south side features four ground-floor windows (lacking glazing bars) and a central doorway, all with architraves and cornices. First-floor windows have eared architraves.

Attached to the east end of both the north and south walls are two-storey service wings of matching materials but simpler design, enclosing a courtyard. An entrance passage to the courtyard from the east side is marked by an ashlar arch with a keystone dated 1846.

The interior features an imposing open well staircase with slim iron balusters. Every second step has a slim scrolled panel of wrought iron depicting a stork, the arms of the Crosse family. The landing is surrounded by round-headed arcades with pilastered piers and moulded plaster surrounds and soffits. Ground floor rooms contain moulded plaster friezes and cornices.