Number 1 And Gate Piers To Left

The property comprises a mid-18th century house and gate piers situated on Crowle Church Street. The house is constructed of brown brick in Flemish bond, with rendered sections to the ground floor below sill level on the left return, rear of the main range, and to the rear wing. It has a concrete tile roof and ashlar gate piers. The house is L-shaped, incorporating a double-depth main range with a two-room, central entrance-hall front, and a two-room former kitchen wing to the rear right, now incorporating a garage. It is two storeys with an attic, and five bays wide, displaying symmetry in its design. A 20th century flight of three steps with a wrought-iron balustrade leads to the entrance, which features a Doric doorcase with fluted pilasters, an entablature with dosserets, a stepped and pulvinated frieze, and a modillioned pediment with a guilloche frieze to its soffit. Above the recessed six-fielded-panel door is a large Gothick overlight. Original four-pane sash windows are present to the ground and first floors, set in flush wooden architraves with ashlar sills, and are topped by rubbed-brick flat arches with projecting ashlar keystones. Recessed rectangular stuccoed panels are positioned above each window beneath the eaves. A moulded wooden eaves board runs along the roofline, and end stacks are visible. The right return, facing High Street, features pairs of four-pane sashes in similar surrounds to the ground and first floor, with a single inserted four-pane sash to the attic. At the rear, a round-headed stair window with Gothick glazing and 20th century casements is present. The gate piers are square, with plinths, panelled sides, a moulded cornice, and ball finials. The interior retains some original details, including a corniced dado rail and modillioned plaster cornices in the entrance hall. The stairhall features a fine open-well cantilevered staircase with a ramped and wreathed handrail, column-on-vase balusters with square knops, a clustered foot-newel, and projecting tread ends. A ramped dado rail, dentilled cornice, and good plasterwork ceiling with a central oval and corner panels with guilloche and foliate friezes are also present, as is an elliptical arch to the upper hall with dentilled capitals, archivolt, and panelled soffit. The upper hall has a dentilled cornice, and the ground floor features details like round-arched alcoves, a foliate cornice, and a ribbed border with pendant ball ornament. Fielded-panel window shutters and doors are set in architraves throughout the house. Chimney-pieces were removed in the 1970s.