Cranbrook House

EARITH HIGH STREET 1. 5140 (north side) No 73 (Cranbrook House) (formerly listed as House 25 yards east of George Inn) TL 38 74 18/12 30.5.58 II GV

1. Circa 1800, house. Gault brick, steeply pitched slate roof with tumbled parapet gables and end stacks. Two-storeys and attics. Flat-roofed dormers with horizontal sliding sash windows. Front symmetrical three window range of recessed hung sashes with glazing bars in cambered, gauged brick arches with 'rusticated' darker brick jambs. Similar windows flank central doorway. Doorcase with fluted, engaged columns, reeded capitals and dentil bracketed cornice supporting a broken triangular pediment. Panelled reveals and arch to doorway, semi-circular fanlight and six panelled door. Later service wing to left hand, one-storey with an enclosed servants staircase projecting above the ridge to the right hand. Dentil eaves cornice. Two recessed hung sash windows with glazing bars to left of double, flush-panelled doors in cambered gauged, brick arch. Early C19 two-storey range to rear. Gault brick hipped slate roof. First-floor range of five hung sash windows with glazing bars in gauged brick arches. Five full-length casement windows at ground floor. Interior of main building has first-floor bedrooms with gable walls panelled, original shouldered chimney pieces flanking cupboards with two panelled doors. Original early C19 chimney pieces and open-string staircase in later building.

Listing NGR: TL3845274816