Crowleasowes

The Crowleasowes is an early 17th-century farmhouse, built on an earlier core, with a 19th-century extension wing. The original structure is brick, while the 19th-century wing is stone rubble. The roof is covered in plain tiles with brick-coped gables. A prominent large brick stepped eaves stack features five rows of cogged brick ornament, twin diagonally-set shafts, and an oversailing capping. An integral ornamental brick eaves stack is located at the rear, and a gable-end stack sits at the front of the 19th-century wing.

The building's original design was an L-shape, formed by two parallel gabled wings, with a third parallel gabled wing added in the 19th century. The south-east front has two gables, the left smaller than the right. A brick band runs across the first floor, and a thinner band above the upper windows features closely-set brick ogee-moulded corbels. Below the larger gable are three rows of brick ornamentation (two rows rounded, one cogged), and a similar two rows below the smaller gable. Each gable head contains a stepped brick window with a central mullion, and the first storey has three framed and mullioned windows at irregular heights. The ground storey also features three similar windows, the left window being transomed. Most window openings are metal casements, some with lattice-leaded glass. All mullions and frames are brick, rendered to resemble stone. A doorway is flanked by rusticated pilasters surmounted by a brick pediment, sheltering an elliptical moulded arch. A plain boarded and nail-studded entrance door sits beneath. A 20th-century casement is located in the gable end of the 19th-century wing.

The north-east return mirrors the front with two windows on the upper floor and one on the ground floor, with a brick band continuing from the front. A projecting brick stack is centrally positioned. At the rear (north-west), the 17th-century gable on the left mirrors the front, featuring a single 2-light mullion window on the ground floor. A 19th-century stone gable to the right has a 3/6 sash window above a 6/6 sash. A slate-roofed outshut sits between the two gables. The south-west return has a two-storey, three-window range with 3/6 and 6/6 sash windows, set within brick segmental arches and on stone sills. A central pair of glazed doors is surrounded by a doorcase of plain pilasters and entablature.

Inside, the central wing preserves a 16th-century core featuring a single trenched-purlin roof. Two trusses remain, each with a cambered tie beam, four vertical struts and collar. Reused 16th-century oak panelling has been reset on the ground-floor middle bay. Local tradition suggests the farmhouse was built in 1623 by Dutch craftsmen while working on Kyre near Tenbury.