Crossways Farm House

ABINGER C.P. RAIKES LANE TQ 14NW

4/67 Crossways Farm House 11/11/66 GV II*

House. 1610. Timber framed, clad in sandstone blocks, some galleted, with brick dressings, frame exposed on right hand return front with render and brick infilling, sandstone rubble ground floor cladding to rear with square stepped-end tile hanging above. Horsham slab roofs. Centre, lobby entrance plan with service wing, half the width of the house, at right angles to rear right. Two storeys on plinth with moulded brick coping, brick cornice over ground floor and fine, deep, brick dentilled eaves cornice above. Stack to rear left of centre and very fine multiple stack to rear right of approx. 30 feet in diameter with corbelled top and arched panel decoration on shaft. Regular front with two outer, 8-light, diamond- pane, leaded casement windows to first floor in brick surrounds. Brick keystone heads rising up to form dosserets in eaves cornice. One 2-light window either side of entrance porch on first floor. Outer 3-light windows on ground floor under 4-centred, brick keystoned relieving arches. Central gabled two storey porch with cornice over ground floor. Three-light diamond-pane window to first floor, under brick-dentilled lintel continuing as stringcourse, and dentilled pediment above. Bargeboards and pendant finial to gable. Round-arched keystoned porch entrance below to panelled C17 door in chamfered and moulded wood surround. Hipped and gableted wing to rear, possibly older, with tall stack and 4-centred arches over doors and windows. Interior:- notable mainly for the staircase, a massive central stair boxed in with sturdy carved newels, chamfered angles, and balusters.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.86.

Listing NGR: TQ1086247361