Crossways

Crossways is a house dating from around 1870. It is built of red brick with stone dressings, and has a slate roof. The house is two and three stories high, with a three-bay design, the left bay being advanced and gabled. A central, buttressed porch is gabled and features a moulded arch that transitions into imposts, above which is an unglazed sexfoil opening. The porch is flanked by a two-light window with a central colonnette and tympana with arabesques, and a three-light bay window with a shaped slate roof and iron cresting that forms a balcony to the window above. The first-floor windows are sash windows; a pair of them have shouldered flat heads set within a frieze of stone and blue brick bands with inlaid medallions, followed by a two-light window with central colonnette and tympana to each light, and a half-tripartite window with brick relieving arches and stone tympana. The gables contain two two-light windows with central colonnettes. A large, wooden, gabled dormer window is centrally placed on the roof. To the left is a single-story addition dating from around 1905, in an Arts and Crafts Tudor style. This addition is of red brick with red sandstone mullion and transom windows, and has a straight parapet of grey stone with a chevron pattern in tiles along the edge. It includes a large rectangular bay window.