Crossways Farm House

Crossways Farm House is a house dating from 1610. It is timber framed and clad in sandstone blocks, some of which are galleted, with brick dressings. The frame is exposed on the right-hand return front, while the rear features sandstone rubble cladding on the ground floor with square stepped-end tile hanging above. The roof is covered with Horsham slabs.

The house has a central lobby entrance plan with a service wing that is half the width of the house and positioned at right angles to the rear right. It stands two storeys tall on a plinth with moulded brick coping, a brick cornice over the ground floor, and a fine, deep, brick dentilled eaves cornice above. There is a stack to the rear left of centre and a very fine multiple stack to the rear right, approximately 30 feet in diameter, featuring a corbelled top and arched panel decoration on the shaft.

The front of the house is regular, with two outer 8-light, diamond-pane, leaded casement windows on the first floor set in brick surrounds. The brick keystone heads rise to form dosserets in the eaves cornice. There is one 2-light window on either side of the entrance porch on the first floor. The outer 3-light windows on the ground floor are located under 4-centred, brick keystoned relieving arches.

A central gabled two-storey porch features a cornice over the ground floor and a three-light diamond-pane window on the first floor, under a brick-dentilled lintel that continues as a stringcourse, with a dentilled pediment above. The gable has bargeboards and a pendant finial. Below, there is a round-arched keystoned porch entrance leading to a panelled 17th-century door in a chamfered and moulded wood surround.

At the rear, there is a hipped and gableted wing, possibly older, which includes a tall stack and 4-centred arches over doors and windows. Inside, the house is notable mainly for its staircase, which is a massive central stair boxed in with sturdy carved newels, chamfered angles, and balusters.