Crosstree Farmhouse

Crosstree Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the mid-17th century. A room on the right was altered in the early 18th century to become a parlour. A rear wing was added to the right between the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the building was re-windowed and a new stair installed in the mid-19th century, with some 20th-century alterations. The farmhouse is constructed of rubble, with a double Roman tiled roof, ridge and gable stacks, and brick stacks at the gables. The rear wings are pantiled.

It likely originated as a two-room plan with a through passage, and was extended to the right, evidenced by the large limestone quoins on the left and smaller limestone quoins on the right. The arrangement now forms a U-plan due to the rear wings. The main range is two storeys high with five windows, each with small plate-glass sashes in exposed boxes. Ground-floor windows have timber lintels. The third bay from the right has a door with two glazed panels, and the second window from the left has a heavier timber lintel, possibly indicating the original door to the two-room house.

The left return has an external brick stack, and a single-storey brick addition is present to the rear-left, forming an angle with a lower two-storey dairy wing. The dairy wing has a two-light casement to its gable end, and doors and two-light casements to its inner side. The right return has a 20th-century single light at ground floor left, a similar blocked opening at first floor, and a lean-to structure incorporating a two-light casement. The lower two-storey rear wing has a two-light casement at ground floor and under the eaves. The inner side of this wing has a small two-light casement on both ground and first floors, and a door to the right. Its gable end has a 20th-century nine-pane light at ground floor and a stack. The rear of the main range has a door to the left and a plate-glass sash to the right, with a covered area supported on two wooden piers, which is extended to a brick wall on the left.

Inside, the room to the right of the main range has fielded panelling, pilasters with guttae to the sides of the fireplace, a cupboard to the right of the fireplace with a curved wall internally (the site of a former stair), and a shell cupboard to the left of the fireplace, with shaped shelves and a later panelled door. Panelling was cut through to give access to the rear wing. The front door leads to a straight staircase. A fireplace in the central room has a heavy chamfered timber lintel, and the beams have a narrow chamfer and scroll stops. The end room to the left also has similar beams. A first-floor room to the right has panelled cupboards to the end wall.