Crown House

Crown House is a house dated 1818, located in Bondgate, Castle Donington. It is constructed with whitewashed stucco over brick, has a slate roof, and features rendered chimneys. The house has a two-storey front, but extends to three storeys at the rear, with two bays facing the street. The front features a first-floor sill band painted black, and moulded stucco eaves with a distinctive fret-pattern design. The windows are four-pane sash windows with black-painted stucco hood moulds, the lower ones in a Tudor style. The central entrance has a six-panelled door within a stucco surround, incorporating a moulded ogee arch, crockets, a finial, and triple-shafted jambs. A stucco relief of radiating foliage sits within a tympanum above the door, resting on a Greek fret frieze. The interior front rooms have decorative plasterwork. The left-hand ground floor room includes a richly moulded ceiling cornice with a frieze of urns, a foliated ceiling rose, and a pair of arched alcoves with daisy motifs to the architrave. The room to the right on the ground floor features a fine ceiling cornice with beaded ornament. The house was formerly the home of the Sutton family, master plasterers. John Sutton, a member of the family, contributed to the plasterwork at Donington Hall.