Westcroft

Westcroft is a large house, rebuilt in 1784, although it incorporates fabric of an earlier house dated 1744. It was built for John Waldron, a clothier. The main front is two storeys and an attic, constructed of brick on a projecting plinth with a moulded stone capping. It features chamfered stone quoins and a stone string course at first floor level. A stone cornice rises over the central pediment, breaking forward over the quoins, and is topped by a tall brick parapet with moulded stone coping. The roof is a hipped mansard with double Roman tiles, pierced by five dormers with segmental arched, moulded heads and sash windows. Sash windows with glazing bars are present on the first and second floors, while the ground floor windows have louvred shutters. The first floor has four windows with moulded stone cills, stone key blocks, and panelled sunblind pelmets. A central Palladian window features engaged Doric columns, an entablature, and an architrave with a key block over the arched central light, a moulded stone cill on console brackets. Four ground floor windows have stone key blocks. A six-panel central door is set within a stone doorcase of engaged Doric columns, an entablature, and a pediment, topped with an arched fanlight of interlaced "Gothic" design in plain stone, a moulded stone string across the door head, an architrave, and a key block. A flagged path is in front of the house. A single-storey wing to the right is of later date, matching the general design and with three windows. A three-storey brick wing forms the west front, with an attic and basement; it has four ranges of glazing bar sash windows to the first and second floors, stone surrounds with beaded inner edges, and two similar but narrower ground floor windows, alongside a modern three-light casement replacing a Venetian window. The roof is of double Roman tiles with two segmental headed dormers and gable end brick stacks. Two gables face east. Inside, a fine contemporary staircase is present. A terrace garden fronts the house, enclosed by a high retaining wall to the road.

Westcroft, along with its Stable Block, a building to the north-west, the boundary wall, and Numbers 1 and 2 Waldron’s Square, form a group with the listed buildings on the north side of the Conigre.