Cropping Park, Including Railings To West And South

Croppins Park is a mid-19th century house, later converted into flats, with associated railings to its west and south sides. The house is rectangular, originally designed with a double-depth plan and two rooms wide, facing west. It is stuccoed, with a hipped slate roof and a stack with a rendered shaft and corbelled cap.

The west front is symmetrical, with three bays, rusticated quoins, and deep eaves carried on paired moulded brackets. A central porch has tapering granite columns with capitals, a renewed entablature, and a round-headed doorway with panelled reveals and a fanlight with intersecting glazing bars. The doorway has a 6-panel door, upper panels fielded. There are six windows, three to the first floor and two to the ground floor, all 2-light, high-transomed casements with 6 panes per light and 2 panes above the transom. A probably 20th-century attic dormer is also present.

The south elevation features a walkway at ground-floor level built over three renewed basement entrances. It has French windows opening onto the walkway, three first-floor windows, and one dormer, all with glazing matching the west front. The north return has a ground-floor tripartite sash window to the left, with a 12-pane centre flanked by 4-pane sashes. A 12-pane sash window is present on the first floor to the left. Two further ground-floor windows and one first-floor window are glazed with casements matching those on the west front.

The rear (east) elevation has two outer projections with string courses and deep cornices. The north-east projection has a third storey and a peaked slate roof, while the south-east projection lacks this third storey. These projections feature round-headed Italianate windows with stuccoed architraves and keyblocks, each glazed with 2-pane casements, one on the north and south sides and paired to the east. The three-storey projection has a timber-framed third storey with deep eaves on moulded consoles and ribbon windows with triangular heads and triangular moulded panels. These windows are glazed with 2-pane casements. The rear elevation has been altered, including the addition of a fire escape.

Ornate cast- and wrought-iron railings, arranged in alternating panels with spider's web and lattice motifs and wrought-iron scrolls, enclose the walkways around the west and south sides. Internally, the house has a modern stair and 20th-century joinery, reflecting its conversion to flats.