Croxton House And Garden Wall

Croxton House is a house, originally a rectory, dating from around 1700. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with red stretchers and black headers. The roof is covered in black glazed pantiles. The design features rusticated brick quoins to the gables, and rusticated brick framing to the central three bays, which project forward. The ground floor has six windows, and the first floor has seven, both being flush wooden-framed sash windows with glazing bars, each set beneath a rubbed brick flat arch with a central keystone. The central doorway has part-glazing with switch tracery in the fanlight above. The wooden doorcase has an architrave and a leaded wooden pentice canopy supported on carved wooden console brackets. A brick plinth runs along the ground floor and there is a moulded brick platband and a wooden eaves cornice. Three flat-roofed dormers contain two-light wooden casements with leaded panes. The steeply pitched roof has Dutch gables and end stacks; the east gable displays a fire insurance plaque dated 1743. A late 19th-century addition in red and black brick is situated at a right angle to the main block, incorporating a bay window and a Dutch gable. A rear wing with a Dutch gable, contemporary with the facade, features two wooden mullioned cross windows with leaded lights.

Inside, three ground floor rooms retain six-panelled doors, panelled window reveals, and simple plaster cornices. A panelled room at the west end has pilasters to the overmantle. A dog-leg staircase with simple balusters is present. The front pile and rear wing contain chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.

A garden wall is attached to the south side of the building. The eastern section has buttresses, and a parallel section of wall runs at a right angle to the facade, featuring two brick piers with copings, a boarded door, and a section of flint wall with brick headers, brick finishing courses, and rounded brick coping.