Village Farmhouse

CROSBY

SD3101 LITTLE CROSBY ROAD, Little Crosby 778-1/4/182 (South West side) 04/07/52 No.25 Village Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: LITTLE CROSBY ROAD, Little Crosby Village Farmhouse including former barn & cottage building attached)

GV II

Farmhouse with attached cottage and barn, now integrated as house and store. House dated 1669 on lintel of doorway, former barn probably C18; altered. The house is of sandstone ashlar in large blocks (now strap-pointed at 1st floor), with stone slate roof and brick chimney; the former barn is of brick painted white, also with stone slate roof and brick chimney. The house has a 2-unit end-baffle-entry plan, and the former barn is attached to the south gable wall. EXTERIOR: the house, 2 low storeys and 2 windows, with a chamfered plinth, and a continuous cavetto-moulded drip-band to ground floor, has a Tudor-arched doorway to the left, with chamfered surround, large lintel with raised lettering "I E / 1669", and drip-band stepped over; and double-chamfered stone mullion windows of 5 and 3 lights at ground floor, 3 and 3 lights above. Stone copings to both gables; rebuilt brick chimney next to that to the left. The range attached to the left, also 2 storeys, has C20 windows on each floor of the bay adjoining the house, and more scattered fenestration beyond. INTERIOR: former longitudinal partition of service end removed. Collectively all the buildings in Little Crosby Conservation Area form a valuable group of similar scale but varied dates, materials and style.

Listing NGR: SD3189801421