Crockets Farmhouse

BEAUDESERT

SP1466 Crockets Farmhouse 652-1/10/2 20/07/89

II

Farmhouse. Late C17 with C18 alterations and extensive late C20 restoration and additions. Brick laid to Flemish bond; hipped tile roof, renewed tiles to returns and rear, with brick central valley stack and repaired return lateral stacks. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: garden front: 2 storeys, cellar and attic; 3-window range. Centre breaks forward under pedimental gable; finely moulded top brick cornice carried round gable, which has string course and some vitrified headers to gable. Central C20 bow window with tile roof; other windows with 3-light leaded casements, those to ground floor segmental-headed; gable has segmental-headed window with 2-light casement. Changes in brickwork show changes in fenestration, probably in C18. Left return has C20 bow window to left of centre with 3-light casement over; tall hipped roof dormer with, to left, a gablet, possibly once the position of a stack, and to right a moulded brick stack joined to roof by gablet. Right return has C20 lean-to porch continued to rear as single-storey wing with wide entrance recess and C20 windows, C20 entrance to right end; 2-light casement above, and moulded stack to left. Rear has segmental-headed entrance to left of centre and C20 single-storey and 2-storey additions. INTERIOR: recorded as having chamfered spine beams; 2-panel and plank doors; flagged and wide-board floors; 2 open fireplaces and early C19 fireplace to left bedroom; original roof structure with valley either side of central stack. A diagonal corner beam in present entrance hall suggests there may have been a second balancing corner stack on the right side of the house.

Listing NGR: SP1459266629