Cressex House

Cressex House is a farmhouse and attached outbuildings, now combined into a commercial premise. The core of the building dates back to the 17th century, with substantial additions and alterations in the 18th and early-to-mid 19th centuries, and further changes in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The structure is predominantly brick, in a Flemish bond pattern, with plain tile roofs.

The main 17th-century range was refronted in the early-to-mid 19th century. A 17th-century wing is located to the rear left, altered and extended probably in the mid-18th and early-to-mid 19th centuries. Further outbuildings were added to the rear right corner in the late 18th or early 19th century, with a second range built behind the main range in the early 19th century, running parallel and projecting to the right.

The building is two storeys with an attic and a partial cellar; the wing is partially single-storey, and the outbuildings are two storeys high. The front elevation has five bays. A central four-panel door is beneath an overlight with decorative glazing bars. Sixteen-pane sash windows are set in reveals and have gauged flat brick arches. Gables are present at each end, each with a similar attic window. A stone-coped parapet tops the front range, with a central, 20th-century flat-roofed dormer. A ridge stack is positioned to the right of centre.

The rear of the building displays different brickwork patterns. There are three sixteen-pane sashes on the first floor, and a twelve-pane sash to the wing. The right return has a segmental-arched sixteen-pane sash on each floor. The left return reveals some 17th-century orangey brick in an irregular English bond. The front range has a sixteen-pane sash to the ground floor; the window above this opening has been partly blocked and replaced with a smaller window. A wing features two- and four-bay sections with segmental-arched small-pane windows. A previously arched doorway has been blocked on the left, with a more recent door inserted on the right, and a 20th-century window above. A large ridge stack and one at the left end have been truncated.

The former outbuildings predominantly have 20th-century windows, including two segmental-arched windows on the ground floor, a first-floor taking-in doorway, and a three-light window with diagonal glazing bars.

Interiors retain 17th-century features, including stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, posts, a fireback in the left-hand ground-floor room, wide floorboards, and original purlins and rafters in the attic. 18th-century features include a fine, keyed, round-arched corner cupboard with moulded shelves in the wing, and similar, but plainer, cupboards flanking the fireplace in the ground-floor left room. This room also features panelled window reveals and shutters. A 19th-century staircase and fireplace are in the front right-hand room.