Cromwell House

Cromwell House is a house, now a farmhouse, dating back to the 17th century, with a significant refronting in the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with limestone ashlar quoins and window dressings on the right side, and a brick porch and dressings on the left. The roof is tiled, and there’s a brick and limestone ashlar stack. The house is three storeys high, with a three-window front.

The porch has a curved and moulded stone cornice, and a gauged brick segmental arch with a dropped keystone over an 18th-century eight-panelled door with an overlight. To the left of the porch are gauged brick segmental arches over an early 18th-century sash window on the ground floor and late 18th-century sashes above, with a blind window in the centre of the second floor. To the right of the porch are label moulds over cavetto-moulded stone mullioned three- and four-light leaded casement windows on the first and second floors, and a late 19th-century three-light window without stone mullions on the ground floor. A stone ashlar band runs beneath the parapet. The gabled roof has a steeper pitch at the rear, where it rises to two storeys, and a ridge stack of limestone ashlar with a brick dentilled top. A timber lintel sits above a 18th-century two-light casement window on the left gable wall, which has leaded lights.

At the rear right are a cavetto-moulded stone-mullioned four-light window, a four-panelled door with an overlight, and a hood mould over a similar three-light window with leaded lights above. The interior features 18th-century six- and two-panelled doors in moulded architraves, and 17th-century two-panelled doors on the first floor. A ribbed door is in the loft, and a mid- to late-17th-century doorway with a moulded architrave leads to a room on the first floor. A three-panelled 17th-century door gives access to the newel stairs, with one splat and one moulded baluster at the foot of the stairs. A bacon smoking cupboard is accessed from the newel stairs between the ground and first floors. The roof is a four-bay collar-truss structure with butt purlins. There are various 20th-century extensions at the rear.