18,20, 22 AND 24, SOUTHCROFT

A house with later additions, now divided into four cottages, was originally built in the early 18th century, with further additions in the later 18th century. The house is constructed of English garden wall bond brick with chamfered quoins, and has a tiled roof with gable end brick stacks. It is arranged in an L-shape. The original south front, now the rear of numbers 18 and 20, has two storeys and four windows, with two 12-pane sashes and two 2-light casements on both ground and first floors, all set within moulded stone architraves. It features a moulded stone eaves cornice. To the right is rubble stone, with an attached cottage addition forming number 18. The west side of this addition has a planked door, a sash window, and a casement window. A rear wing to the main range has an entrance to number 20 in a gabled ashlar porch with an elliptical-headed opening, imposts, a keystone, a bull's eye window to the side, a fixed light, and a segmental fixed window with a keystone and impost to the first floor. Number 22, to the right, includes a 20th-century glazed door and a 2-light ovolo-moulded casement to the left. The first floor has two casements in ovolo-moulded architraves and remnants of a fluted pilaster to the right, also featuring a moulded stone eaves cornice. The rear of the wing is extended with casements and a flat-headed dormer containing a casement window. Number 24 is an addition to the north end of the wing, with a half-hipped tiled roof, a gabled porch with a 20th-century door, a segmental-headed casement to the left, blocked windows to the first floor, and casements to the right return. A 20th-century addition and garage are not of particular interest. The interiors of numbers 18, 20, and 24 were inaccessible during a survey in June 1986, but number 22 contains chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel and ogee stops.