18 and 20, LITTLE CROSBY ROAD

CROSBY

SD3101 LITTLE CROSBY ROAD, Little Crosby 778-1/4/177 (East side) 26/03/73 Nos.18 AND 20 (Formerly Listed as: LITTLE CROSBY ROAD, Little Crosby Nos.18-22 (Even))

GV II

Farmhouse and cottage. Probably later C17, partly rebuilt in C18 or C19, and altered. Large dressed sandstone blocks to ground floor and brick above, all painted white, gable wall of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins; stone slate roof and brick chimneys. Three-unit one-and-a-half depth plan, with rear outshut. EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, 2+1 windows; with a chamfered plinth. Between the 2nd and 3rd bays is a pair of doorways, that to the left with a chamfered surround and Tudor-arched lintel and that to the right formerly similar but now blocked with old stone. No.18 has a 3-light window on each floor, No.20 has windows of 3 and 5 lights at ground floor, 3 and 3 above, and all these windows have chamfered wooden mullions except that at ground floor of No.18 which has stone mullions. Small oval plaque at 1st floor of No.20 ("Conservation Area"). Ridge chimney in line with doorway of No.20, rebuilt gable chimney to No.18. Right-hand gable wall of No.18 has lean-to with doorway in south end and former doorway at 1st floor with Tudor-arched lintel. INTERIOR: No.20 has large C17 inglenook with moulded bressumer beam and chamfered spine beam; inserted partition at lower end to form passage; 2 service rooms. No.18: upper floor was formerly a granary. Collectively all the buildings in Little Crosby Conservation Area form a valuable group of similar scale but varied dates, materials and style.

Listing NGR: SD3192301427