1 And 3, Crouch Hill

1 and 3 Crouch Hill is a dairy and shop building, dating from around 1895. It features brown glazed brick, red rubbed brick with stone dressings, and sgraffito, with roofs hidden by a parapet. The single-storey dairy front has a base of brown glazed brick and an elliptical-arched carriage entrance with stone foliage imposts and an archivolt that reverts to rubbed brick in the middle section. To the left of the entrance are five bays, and to the right are two bays, each with round-arched panels that have stone foliage imposts and archivolts with roll-mouldings, flanked by Corinthian pilasters. The panels are filled with scenes in sgraffito that depict dairy processes, including grazing, milking, cooling, country delivery, making butter, old-style delivery, and present-day delivery. Above these scenes is a frieze of swags interspersed with heads in cartouches. The scrolled parapet is interrupted over the third bay from the left by a panel with incised lettering that reads 'ESTABLISHED A0 1836 DI', and above the entrance is a panel inscribed 'FRIERN MANOR DAIRY FARM LIMITED', topped by a stone panel with consoles depicting a mythological and dairy scene. There are also two octagonal cupolas with louvred lantern stages, lead-covered ogee roofs, and iron sunflower finials behind the parapet. Number 3 has a 20th-century shop front flanked by pilasters, with possible remnants of the original shop front behind the modern fascia. It features a cornice with festooned brackets and a parapet of composition stone with a cartouche in the central brick panel. The sgraffito panels are notable for being pictorial and located on a street, as there is not much late 19th-century sgraffito work, and what exists is typically decorative or found in churches.