Crawley House

Crawley House is a small country house built between 1777 and 1778, with significant alterations in 1806. It is constructed of red brick with a clay tiled Mansard roof. The house follows a double-pile plan, extending over two storeys and incorporating attics.

The south elevation shows the earliest phase of construction with a first floor featuring a 1:3:1 arrangement of sash windows with glazing bars, each set beneath a gauged brick flat arch. Ground floor additions from 1806 include two canted bays which overlap the central bay, incorporating sash windows with glazing bars under gauged brick heads. The central bay projects slightly, topped by a triangular pediment containing a semi-circular window set within the tympanum. The attic has two box dormers housing sash windows. The central doorway is framed by part-glazed double doors topped with a semi-circular fanlight radiating ornamental glazing bars; the surround features half-columns supporting a broken pediment. A left-hand bay was added in 1806, featuring a canted bay to the ground floor, two sash windows to the first floor, and a box dormer to the attic. A wood modillion cornice and a plain stone-coped parapet run across the entire elevation. Red brick gable end stacks are located at both ends of the building, along with a red brick ridge stack, originally a left-hand gable end stack of the earlier building. The north elevation displays two Venetian windows on each floor of the earlier section. A central entrance features a 6-panel door and rectangular fanlight, set under a flat cornice hood.

Inside, the drawing room retains decorative elements from 1806 in an Egyptian style. A marble chimney-piece is carved with trophies of musical instruments and surmounted by a mirror with an anthemion frieze and female heads to the surround. Moulded dado and cornice are also present. Pilasters flanking the bay window have “Tower of the Winds” capitals, while the upper part of the walls is divided into panels with border decorations of sphinxes and mummies.