66 and 68 Town Road including 2 Church Street

Probably a former farmhouse, the building now comprises two shops and a house, situated at 66 and 68 Town Road, and incorporating number 2 Church Street, Croston. Construction began in the 17th century or earlier (No. 66) and continued with extensions and alterations mainly in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The exterior is a mix of materials including handmade brick, roughcast, and coursed sandstone rubble with quoins; the roof is slate.

Number 66 is two bays wide and two storeys high, with a gable facing the road (the right return wall forming a corner with Church Street). Attached to the left is a three-bay range, higher and two storeys, which is connected to and overlaps No. 66. The right return wall of No. 66, built of sandstone with quoins at each end and rounded coping at the first floor, transitions to brick above. It features a blocked horizontal rectangular window with remnants of a hoodmould at ground floor in the front bay, a blocked square window above, an inserted door, and a casement window on each floor in the rear bay. The front gable is linked to a gable on the adjoining bay to the left, both featuring 12-pane sash windows. Ground floor shop windows have been altered, with remnants of simple triangular brick moulds above; an early 19th-century double-fronted shop window with pilaster jambs and cornice is present for the post office, with the left portion carried over the front of the right-hand end of No. 68. No. 68 has a central panelled door with a round-headed surround, a keystone, and a fanlight, alongside a 4-pane sash window on the left side and two others on the first floor. Chimneys are situated at the rear gable of No. 66, at the left gable of No. 68, and on the ridge in line with the gable of the post office, with another at the rear wall. A short gabled wing at the rear, in line with the front gable of the post office, retains the remains of a small brick mullion window in its apex, with a label. It has otherwise been altered and extended at ground floor.

The interior of No. 66 displays extensive timber framing, including stopped ovolo-moulded spine beams with run-out stops in both bays, and post and rail framed partition walls (exposed at the first floor) with Tudor-arched doorways. A large chimney or smoke hood on the first floor is said to have once served a forge or similar hearth below.