Farmhouse At Crumps Farm

The farmhouse at Crumps Farm is a large, early 17th-century L-plan timber-framed building, initially facing west. An oval plaster panel above the front door bears the inscription "IKA 1628". The west and south faces, along with the east gable, were re-clad in red brick in the early 18th century. The other walls are plastered, and the steeply pitched roof is covered with old red tiles, incorporating slate courses at the eaves. The roof is hipped where it angles, but half-hipped to the north and east. A two-storey service wing and staircase are situated in the angle of the L, and a large, single-storey timber-framed building (formerly a brewhouse or kitchen) is located at the north end, now serving as a lobby. A single-storey lean-to with a hipped slate and tile roof extends from the east side.

The house has a compact rectangular plan, with a west-facing entrance lobby beside a central chimneystack, positioned in the middle of the west wing. A stair lobby is on the east side of the stack. The hall, situated north of the stack, features a large fireplace and cross-beam ceilings with exposed joists, all of which are chamfered and stop-chamfered with run-out stops. Service rooms open out of the hall, including a kitchen to the north and a dairy and store rooms to the east. A corner room to the south of the stack has a cross-beam ceiling. The parlour in this room has a blocked door in a framed partition on the east side, originally connecting to an east parlour, which occupies the ground floor of the east wing. The parlour features similar chamfered and stopped ceiling cross-beams, and a corner fireplace in the northeast corner. The stair dado is constructed of small, scratch-moulded panelling. The first floor has axial ceiling beams, and there are two early 17th-century battened plank doors with moulded edges in the west wing. A three-light, late 17th-century mullioned and transomed window, and a contemporary one-light window with leaded glazing in iron casement lights, illuminate the attic from the north gable of the west range.

The west front is built in early 18th-century red brick, with a plinth, a raised floor band, an oval brick frame surrounding the original date panel, a small square window with a pegged wooden frame and diamond lattice above the date panel, and segmental window arches incorporating darker brick headers. The windows have been widened slightly to accommodate 19th-century sash windows, and a four-and-a-half inch brick arch has been inserted below the original arch. The west front is symmetrical, with a central door flanked by two windows. There are two windows on the south front, and one window on each floor of the east gable end.