Crow Trees

Crow Trees is a house, now an old people’s home, initially built in 1628 for Christopher Coates and extended in 1670 for Samuel Coates. It was resited and largely rebuilt around 1825-26, with later alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is constructed of coursed squared stone with a stone slate roof, and follows an H-shaped plan. The north-east range is shorter than the south-west range. It is two storeys high, with an attic to the south-west range, and comprises three-bay parallel ranges connected by a short link block. The windows are double-chamfered mullion windows, with transoms to the north-east range – these transoms have been removed from the south-west range.

The south-west elevation has a chamfered plinth and a first-floor string, both returning. The ground floor has three five-light windows. Above are windows of four, two, five, and six lights. Gable features rise between bays one and two, and two and three. Each gable has an oculus flanked by a datestone: the left one is inscribed "SC 1670" (Simon Coates), and the right one is inscribed "CC 1628" (Christopher Coates), with an oculi, stepped hoodmould, and a three-light window below. The gables have shaped kneelers, ashlar coping, and finials. External stacks are present on each end, with the left stack having strings and cornices; another stack is located on the ridge between bays two and three. A 19th-century single-storey porch projects from the right side, with a chamfered, quoined, triangular-headed entrance.

The north-east elevation features a doorway between bays one and two with a moulded, quoined, bi-cusped architrave and a lintel stone, also bi-cusped, with a chamfered two-light overlight above. An inserted three-light window is located to the right, and a two-light window (mullion removed) is to the left. On the first floor are windows of three, three, and two lights. The elevation includes moulded kneelers, ashlar coping, and stacks to the left end and on the rear roof pitch to the right.

The south-east elevation's link block has a tall stair window of three cusped lights and another of two cusped lights to the first floor on the right, both dating to the 19th century.

The north-west elevation’s north-east range has a five-light window with a hoodmould to each floor, with the upper lights round-arched. The south-west range has three-light windows to the ground floor and windows of two and three lights above, with a two-light attic window.

The interior stair hall features late 17th-century-style oak panelling with raised and fielded panels, Doric pilasters, and bolection-moulded architraves to doors. It also contains an open-well, closed-string newel stair with turned balusters and a ramped handrail, along with a stained-glass stair window. A panelled room on the north-west ground floor has an 18th-century style.