Croft House

SK 79 NE HAXEY GRAISELOUND FIELDS ROAD (west side) Graiselound 14/107 Croft House

GV II

House. Early C19, with later C19 rear addition. For Thomas Taylor. Yellow brick front and stacks in Flemish bond, red brick to remainder. Welsh slate roof. L-shaped on plan: original 2-room, central entrance-hall east front with wing to rear right and later extensions to rear. 2 storeys, 3 bays: symmetrical. Tuscan porch with slender columns carrying entablature with moulded cornice, flat hood and blocking course; pilasters flanking half-glazed panelled door with glazing bars beneath moulded lintel and overlight with margin lights, in reveal. Unequal 20-pane ground-floor sashes with sills beneath channelled and keyed wedge lintels. 16-pane first-floor sashes in similar surrounds. Moulded wooden eaves cornice, corniced gutter. Hipped roof. Corniced side wall stacks. Rear: earlier section has full-length 24-pane sash to front range, and part-glazed panelled door and overlight with margin bars to angle; later addition has pair of round-headed sashes with glazing bars. Interior. Entrance hall has ornate moulded plaster cornice, elliptical arch with consoles and archivolt. Stairhall has moulded plaster cornice and open-well staircase with wreathed handrail, stick balusters and profiled cheek-pieces. Ornate cornices to front rooms, and fine inserted Adam-style carved wooden chimney-piece to ground floor left.

Listing NGR: SK7759598796