Model Farm

CROSBY

SD3101 LITTLE CROSBY ROAD, Little Crosby 778-1/4/174 (West side) 26/03/73 Nos.13 AND 13A Model Farm

GV II

Farmhouse. No.13 perhaps later C17, rebuilt in later C18, No.13A dated 1857 in right-hand gable wall; now all one dwelling. No.13 of coursed sandstone rubble partly rebuilt in brick and the facade painted, No.13A of red brick in English garden wall bond with painted sandstone dressings, both with slate roofs and brick chimneys. EXTERIOR: No.13 is one single-depth unit, plus an added parallel range to rear; 2 low storeys and one window, with a 4-light segmental-headed casement at ground floor, a similar but smaller 3-light window above, and a gable chimney to the left. No.13A to the right is double-depth and double-fronted with a porch to the front and a short set-back wing to the right, 2 storeys and 2 windows, almost symmetrical, with painted quoins. The ground floor has a gabled porch offset slightly left, with a stone facade including a 2-centred arch and coped gable with kneelers; both floors have chamfered flush-mullion windows with quoined surrounds, that to the right at ground floor with 3 lights and the others with 2 lights. At 1st floor above the porch the letters "N+B" (= Nicholas Blundell) are picked out in yellow headers. Gable copings with kneelers, and gable chimneys. Single-storey wing to right. Pigsty range to rear, of sandstone rubble and some brick: 2 pens, with flagstone feeding chutes, and store to left. INTERIOR: No.13 contains an early-C19 hob-grate, now restored to use. Collectively all the buildings in Little Crosby Conservation Area form a valuable group of similar scale but varied dates, material and style.

Listing NGR: SD3196601335