Crittenden House

Crittenden House is an early 17th-century farmhouse, with alterations from the 19th century and early 20th century. The building is of framed construction, with the ground floor built in brick and the first floor tile-hung, and has a peg-tile roof. Brick stacks are present.

The house faces south and has a three-room lobby entrance plan. The two rooms on the right (east) are heated by back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack, while the room on the left is heated by an end stack. A rear outshut and a late 19th or 20th-century rear addition are also present.

The two-storey and attic house has an asymmetrical four-window front. A 20th-century plank door is located to the right of centre, with an open gabled porch supported on chamfered timber posts. There are four 20th-century, three- and four-light timber casement windows with leaded panes. The right return is weatherboarded with a 20th-century single-storey lean-to addition. A side entrance on the left has a 20th-century gabled porch on timber posts, with a plank door and elaborate iron hinges. The rear elevation features a gabled late 17th-century staircase projection, a brick outshut, and two 20th-century dormer windows to the upper part of the outshut. The roof is half-hipped at the ends. A tall brick stack to the axial stack has a date panel believed to read 1608 and the projecting left end stack has ribbed decoration.

The interior was not inspected in 1989, but it was reported to be unchanged since the 1988 listing. The dining room features a large wooden fireplace bressummer carved with the initials GP and IA, two gabled alcoves, and a two-panelled wooden cupboard with butterfly hinges. The ceiling joists are chamfered and 20th century. The lounge has an iron fireback depicting Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge, said to be from a demolished mansion. The study contains a fireback dated 1592, depicting a two-headed eagle and crowns, a curved brick fireplace with a wooden bressummer, and a coved hood. The staircase bay has pegged rafters with no ridge piece and an oak dogleg staircase. The first floor has gunstock jowled posts and some curved tension braces. The bathroom features a chamfered beam with lambs tongue stops. Original wide oak floorboards are present in the attic, along with three original 17th-century three-plank doors, although copies were made in the 1920s elsewhere in the house.

The roof is staggered butt purlin, though it was not inspected.