Crump House

Crump House is a farmhouse, now a house, dated 1624 on the front door. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features a double Roman tile roof with stone end stacks. The building has a T-shaped plan, with a symmetrical front range consisting of a right-hand parlour and a left-hand hall/kitchen, and a central entry opposite a stair housed in the rear dairy wing. It stands two storeys tall and has a symmetrical three-window front. The original plank door, which has moulded ribs, features strap hinges and an original lock. There are round-arched relieving arches above tall three-light stone-mullioned ogee-moulded windows on the ground floor, and a hood mould over a two-light window flanked by three-light windows with ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows on the first floor, all with leaded lights. Similar wood- and stone-mullioned windows are found on the other elevations, and there is a chamfered wood frame with a four-centred arch to the doorway in the rear wing. The interior retains many original features, including joinery and a stair with four plain diamond balusters, an octagonal newel post, a plain chamfered string, and a scratch-moulded handrail. The collar-truss roof is also notable. Crump House is a very good and complete example of its date, with its symmetrical front and centralised plan representing an early instance of its type. It has seen little alteration, with the notable exceptions of the removal of hood moulds from the first floor and two gabled dormers from the front.