5, Cross Street

This is an early 19th century house with later alterations. It is constructed of brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with the lower parts of the ground floor rendered. The roof is covered with pantiles. The house is L-shaped, consisting of a double-depth range with a central entrance hall of two rooms facing the south front, and a lower kitchen wing to the rear right. It has three storeys and two windows on the first floor, presenting a symmetrical facade.

The unusual doorcase features twisted, fluted half-columns with capitals ornamented with guttae, supported by reeded brackets carrying dosserets similarly hung with guttae and bearing a relief star ornament. There is a pulvinated frieze with a fluted twist moulding, a moulded cornice, and a hood. The round-headed opening contains a carved fan motif to the spandrels, a six-panel door (four fielded panels above two beaded panels), a moulded lintel, and a radial fanlight within a fielded-and-beaded-panel reveal. A pair of late 19th to early 20th century four-light casements have been inserted into the ground floor, each with sills and a stucco cambered arch. Original sixteen-pane sashes are found on the first floor within flush wooden architraves, with ashlar sills and wedge lintels featuring carved foliate motifs to the raised keys. The low second floor has eight-pane sashes in similar surrounds. A plain wooden eaves board runs along the top, and hipped roof with corniced side wall stacks, the one on the left being rendered.

Inside, the entrance hall has a ribbed frieze to the ceiling, with rosettes at the corners, and a round-headed arch to the stairhall which has a ribbed archivolt and pilastered reveal also decorated with star ornament to the capitals. The stairhall contains an open-well cantilevered staircase with a ramped and wreathed handrail, slender column-on-vase balusters, newel posts with square knops, profiled cheek-pieces, and an upper hall with a basket-arched opening, archivolt, and ribbed pilasters. The upper hall has a ribbed frieze and a central roundel on the ceiling. The front left ground-floor room has a foliate frieze to the moulded ceiling cornice, as well as a ribbed frieze to the ceiling with pendant ball ornament to the corners. It retains an original wooden chimney-piece with pilasters and a frieze bearing bold cable mouldings with bulb finials, flanked by basket-arched alcoves with ribbed pilasters bearing star ornament. Six-fielded-panel doors are found throughout the house; the doors to the main rooms on each floor are set within ribbed architraves with star-decorated panels. The decorative motifs used are similar to those found at The Old Rectory, High Street, Belton, and at 64 High Street and 1-3 Market Place, Crowle.