Rowton Manor

The Craven Arms is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, with alterations and extensions from the early 19th century. It is an E-shaped building on plan, with a later 19th-century range to the left rear. The front is stuccoed with a Welsh slate roof, featuring two gables and spurred brick composite ridge stacks, as well as a brick stack to the rear. The front has a three-window range and two storeys, including a cellar. The entrance is in the recessed central bay, featuring a 20th-century glazed door within a 19th-century panelled doorcase with a flat hood on consoles, flanked by 19th-century three-light casements. Scalloped bargeboards run along the eaves. The right-hand returned side is brick and contains a late 19th-century two-over-two sash window, a horizontal casement, a part-glazed door under a stone flat hood on scrolled wrought-iron brackets, and a canted bay with two-over-two, eight-over-eight, and two-over-two sashes. The left-hand returned side is rendered brick and has 19th-century rafters, with a 20th-century two-over-two sash and casement, over a late 19th-century part-glazed door. A three-storey rubble wing extends to the rear, featuring a two-window range with 19th-century casements, some of which have leaded lights, and a corbelled eaves. A 19th-century lean-to is present at the rear. Internally, there is exposed 16th or 17th-century timber framing with chamfered spine beams, run-out stops, panelled doors, wall cupboards, fireplaces, a 19th-century open-well staircase to the first floor with stick balusters and clustered newels, and a 17th-century straight staircase flight to the attic.