Crockhurst Street Farmhouse

Crockhurst Street Farmhouse is a timber-framed farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century, with substantial modernisation and enlargement in the late 19th century. The ground floor is underbuilt with brick, some of which is exposed to the rear in a Flemish bond pattern of red brick with burnt headers, and the first floor is clad with weatherboards. The roof is covered in peg tiles, with brick stacks and chimneyshafts topped with 19th-century chimneypots.

The farmhouse has an L-shaped plan, set back from the road, with the main block facing south. The main block originally comprised three rooms. A small room at the left (west) end, now the kitchen, was likely a service room, possibly a buttery or dairy, and is served by a projecting gable-end stack leading to the chamber above. Adjacent to this is a larger room thought to have been the original kitchen, with an axial stack backing onto the entrance hall to the right. A main staircase rises from the entrance hall along the front, leading to a parlour at the right (east) end, which also has a projecting end stack. This parlour and entrance hall are contained within a crosswing that projects to the rear, alongside a short, single-storey service room. The crosswing represents the original 17th-century structure; a rear section was reduced to this single-storey service room around 1960. The entrance hall was created through subdivision of the original 17th-century hall/parlour. The remainder of the main block was added or comprehensively rebuilt in the late 19th century. The farmhouse is two storeys high, with attics over the parlour.

The exterior has an irregular three-window front with 19th and 20th-century casement windows containing glazing bars. The front doorway, situated slightly right of center, features a late 19th-century plank door sheltered under a contemporary monopitch hood supported by curved timber brackets. The gable-ended roofs are uneven in height, with the crossroof of the 17th-century section being considerably taller than the main block's roof.

Inside, the 17th-century parlour, comprising the present parlour and entrance hall, features a 4-panel intersecting beam ceiling with unusual stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The parlour’s end stack is 19th-century, while the axial stack (now within the entrance hall) is original, although its fireplaces are blocked. The first-floor chamber also has a 4-panel intersecting beam ceiling, with the roof above supported by tie-beam trusses and clasped side purlins. The remainder of the front block contains no carpentry or joinery dating earlier than the late 19th century.