Crowplain Farmhouse

Crowplain Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, that may date back to the 14th or early 15th century, with a facade from the late 18th century. The left end was rebuilt in 1819. The right section is timber framed, featuring a ground floor of chequered red and grey brick that extends slightly into the left section, while the first floor is tile-hung. The left section is constructed of red and grey brick in Flemish bond. The roofs are plain tiled, with the right section comprising two timber-framed bays that were formerly an open hall. The bay or bays to the left of the hall were rebuilt in 1819, except for a short section adjoining the hall, and any bays to the right of the hall are no longer extant. The left section has two storeys and a cellar, while the right section has one and a half storeys. The right section features a plinth made of part ragstone and part brick. The left section has a dentilled brick eaves cornice and a gabled roof, while the right section has a steeply-pitched roof that is half-hipped to the right. There is a slightly projecting brick gable end stack on the left and a multiple red and grey brick stack on the left end of the right section, immediately to the left of the hall's end. The left section has a regular three-window front with recessed sashes, each unusually glazed with twenty-six staggered panes. The ground floor has similar sashes with cambered heads and splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. The right section features two large gabled eaves dormers from the early to mid-20th century, with applied timber framing and three-light casements that imitate the left section's staggered panes. A panelled door with glazed top lights is recessed in a round-headed architrave with rubbed brick voussoirs, located behind a porch at the centre of the left section. There is a short two-storey red brick rear wing to the left, dating from around 1926, and two-storey red brick infilling from the 1930s to the rear right. A brick marked "MG 1819" is located under the right ground-floor window of the left section. Inside, there are three pairs of principal posts with long shaped jowls and tie-beams, and an arch brace to the central truss that springs from below the inserted floor level. The rest of the framing is currently concealed, and the roof was not inspected. The ground floor of the left section features folding panelled shutters.