Stirton Croft

Stirton Croft is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of squared limestone rubble with sandstone dressings and a stone slate roof. The front facade was rebuilt around 1830 but retains 18th-century origins; it is a two-storey, double-fronted design. A central gabled porch features a plain surround to the plank front door. Two windows are present on each floor, each with two lights and flat-faced mullions, sash windows. A central stack rises from a hipped roof. A mid- to late-18th-century rear wing is attached to the left-hand return, also two storeys and two bays wide. It has a plain surround to the entrance and two recessed three-light windows with flat-faced mullions on each floor. The interior includes a cellar with a limewashed stone pillar supporting the ceiling. A late 18th-century kitchen fireplace is on the ground floor, with disturbance above possibly indicating a former 17th-century timber firehood, now removed. A later 18th-century rebuild of the chimney breast, and a 19th-century ceiling in an upper floor room, have destroyed some earlier evidence.