Model Farm

Model Farm is a farmhouse located on Little Crosby Road in Little Crosby. Number 13 may date from the late 17th century but was rebuilt in the late 18th century, while number 13A is dated 1857 on the right-hand gable wall. The two are now combined into one dwelling. Number 13 is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble, partly rebuilt in brick, with a painted facade. Number 13A is made of red brick in English garden wall bond, featuring painted sandstone dressings. Both sections have slate roofs and brick chimneys.

The exterior of number 13 is a single-depth unit with an added parallel range at the rear, consisting of two low storeys and one window. It has a four-light segmental-headed casement window on the ground floor and a smaller three-light window above, with a gable chimney to the left. Number 13A, on the right, is double-depth and double-fronted, featuring a porch at the front and a short set-back wing to the right. It has two storeys and two almost symmetrical windows, with painted quoins. The ground floor includes a gabled porch that is slightly offset to the left, with a stone facade featuring a two-centred arch and a coped gable with kneelers. Both floors have chamfered flush-mullion windows with quoined surrounds; the right ground floor window has three lights, while the others have two lights. Above the porch on the first floor, the letters "N+B" (representing Nicholas Blundell) are highlighted in yellow headers. The gables have copings with kneelers and gable chimneys. There is a single-storey wing to the right and a pigsty range at the rear, made of sandstone rubble and some brick, consisting of two pens with flagstone feeding chutes and a store on the left.

Inside number 13, there is an early 19th-century hob-grate that has been restored for use. Collectively, the buildings in the Little Crosby Conservation Area form a valuable group with a similar scale but varied dates, materials, and styles.