Lawn Upton House

Lawn Upton House is a Gothic-style house built around 1846 for Charles Crawley, featuring the Crawley Coat of Arms above the oriel window. The house has two storeys and an H plan, with wings added on the north side by W Herschel in the late 19th century. It is constructed from coursed, squared limestone rubble with freestone dressings and has a tiled roof with coped gables and multiform ashlar ridge stacks. The house includes coped, gabled dormers and casement windows with mullions and glazing bars, as well as a first-floor oriel window on the south wing. An octagonal staircase turret is located at the corner between the main range and the south wing, and there is an arched doorway with a panelled door. The site is historically significant as it is associated with John Henry Newman, who proposed to establish a monastic house here before his conversion to Rome in 1845.