Littlecroft

House, built in 1899 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Mrs Bowes Watson. The house is constructed of orange/red brick at ground level, with whitewashed roughcast above, and has hipped, plain tiled roofs. It is built into a hillside, with a basement at the rear where the ground slopes downwards. The prominent stacks include tall, wide cross-ridge stacks to the left and right, and smaller double stacks to the left of the centre. The roof comprises several hipped ranges, some parallel, with shuttered glazing-bar casement windows. There is one first floor window in each end range, and projecting turret windows on squinches at the angles. The ground floor features stilted-arch lunette windows below road level, with a thin, ribbed-brick keystone linking to the brick stringcourse above. A central range projects, with further turret windows at the angles and half-hipped dormers in the roof's sides. The front has a block-rusticated brick frontispiece with ogee voussoirs to the keystoned arch above a recessed double door with original brass door furnishings. The left-hand return front displays two windows on each floor, with shutters and tile-on-edge lintels. The right-hand return front has a square break to the left, with one window on each floor. The rear elevation displays three casements across the first floor, with outer canted bay windows below. A central door is positioned within shuttered margin lights.