Crowbourne Farmhouse And Outhouse Attached

Crowbourne Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with extensions from the 18th century and a refronting in 1892/3. It is built with a timber frame and is clad in red brick and tile hanging, with extensions also in red brick and tile hanging. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The front elevation, dating from the late 19th century, has two projecting gabled bays, with stacks at the left and right ends. It features tripartite sash windows on each floor of the bays, a central first-floor sash, and a rib and stud door within a central raked porch.

The rear range is half-hipped, with two storeys and a garret, and a stack cluster to the centre left and a stack to the end right. Casements are present on the right return, while sashes feature on the left return. Half-hipped wings project to the rear and are connected by a single-storey passageway to a hipped outhouse.

Inside the central range, the original timber frame is preserved, with stop-chamfered spine beams and diamond-set mullioned windows now incorporated into interior walls. An unusual collection of 18th-century cupboards is found in the rear wing, built upon a segmentally arched brick base.

The attached outhouse has a steeply pitched hipped roof with gablets and a stack to the left and is weather-boarded over a red and blue brick base. Its interior is fully framed with arched braced gunstock-posts and a clasped purlin roof, containing an inserted copper and bread oven. This building’s frame is at least 16th century in origin, although altered, and may have originally been a detached kitchen building.