Crossing House

Crossing House is a railway crossing cottage dating from c.1849. It is built of red English bond brick with blue brick diapering, ashlar dressings, and a banded fishscale and plain tile roof. The west front, facing the railway, has a slightly projecting central gabled wing. This wing contains a door with a 4-centered ashlar surround, which had been partially blocked at the time of survey (2005) with a window inserted above. The surround also incorporates a pair of single-light casements flanking the door. The gable features diapering and decoratively carved, cusped and chamfered bargeboards. To the right of the doorway is walling with diapering, and to the left is a window with a 2-light casement, both set in ashlar surrounds. A 2-flue, cross-axis ridge stack is located to the right of centre. The north gable end has a projecting stack with ashlar offsets where it dies back, but has lost its brick flue. This gable also has bargeboards similar to those over the door. A lean-to, appearing to be of a later date, is situated to the left. The interior was not inspected. The cottage was built in 1849 as part of the Macclesfield and Colwich branch of the North Staffordshire Railway.