Crown House

SP 02 72 ALVECHURCH CP THE SQUARE (east side)

15/28 Crown House and No 6 (formerly listed as Crown 22.5.73 House)

GV II

House, now veterinary hospital and house. Probably C16, refronted early C18, with mid-C19 and some late C20 alterations. Timber-frame clad in painted brick with machine tile roof. U-plan, probably hall and cross-wings. South-west front: gabled cross-wings at each end with planted C19 framing to gables; two storeys, dentilled brick cornice, band to left cross-wing, 2 + 2 + 2 windows: two to left fixed casements, then a 3-light C20 casement and three 2-light C20 casements; ground floor: 1 + 2 + 1 windows, all fixed casements except the 3-light C20 casement to right; entrances: two between two left-hand windows have wooden architraves and C20 panelled doors; roughly central an entrance with C19 gabled tile canopy and glazed door, similar entrance to right cross-wing approached by three brick steps. There are traces of the positions of earlier windows on the ground floor, evidenced by rubbed brick heads. Framing: exposed in left-hand return wall, close- studded. Interior: in hall range on ground floor is a moulded ceiling beam; there is evidence in the subsidiary beams that the front wall was jettied.

Listing NGR: SP0289772653