5, Cross Street

SE 7613-7713 CROWLE CROSS STREET (north side)

16/44 No 5

GV II

House. Early C19 with later alterations. Brown brick in Flemish bond, rendered below ground-floor sill level. Pantile roof. L-shaped on plan: double-depth range with 2-room central entrance-hall south front and lower kitchen wing to rear right. 3 storeys, 2 first-floor windows; symmetrical. Unusual doorcase has twisted fluted half-columns with capitals hung with guttae, reeded brackets carrying dosserets hung with guttae and bearing relief star ornament, pulvinated frieze with fluted twist moulding, moulded cornice and hood; round-headed opening with carved fan motif to spandrels, and 6-panel door (4 fielded panels above 2 beaded panels) beneath moulded lintel and radial fanlight in fielded-and-beaded-panel reveal. Pair of late C19 - early C20 inserted ground-floor 4-light casements with sills and stucco cambered arches. Original 16-pane first-floor sashes in flush wooden architraves with ashlar sills, beneath ashlar wedge lintels with carved foliate motif to raised keys. Low second floor with 8-pane sashes in similar surrounds. Plain wooden eaves board. Hipped roof. Corniced side wall stacks, that to left rendered. Interior. Entrance hall has ribbed frieze to ceiling with rosettes to corners, round-headed arch to stairhall with ribbed archivolt and pilastered reveal with star ornament to capitals. Stairhall has open-well cantilevered staircase with ramped and wreathed handrail, slender column-on-vase balusters and newel posts with square knops, profiled cheek-pieces; upper hall with basket-arched opening with archivolt and ribbed pilasters, ceiling with ribbed frieze and central roundel. Ground-floor front left room has foliate frieze to moulded ceiling cornice, and ribbed frieze to ceiling with pendant ball ornament to corners; original wooden chimney-piece with pilasters and frieze bearing bold cable mouldings with bulb finials, flanked by basket-arched alcoves with ribbed pilasters bearing star ornament. 6-fielded-panel doors throughout, those to main rooms on each floor in ribbed architraves with star-decorated panels. The distinctive decorative motifs used here are similar to those at The Old Rectory, High Street, Belton (qv), and at 64 High Street and 1-3 Market Place, Crowle (qv).

Listing NGR: SE7725113118