The Croft

The Croft is a house dating to around 1700, as indicated by a datestone. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone with a tile roof and stone stacks, arranged in an L-shaped layout. The main block is two storeys and has an attic, with three bays. A central doorway has a plain stone frame and a 18th-century six-panel door, sheltered by a gabled timber hood supported on brackets. Flanking the doorway are three-light stone mullioned windows with moulded stone surrounds and straight stone hoods. Above, two-light stone mullioned windows without hoods are on the first floor, and a single-light window on the left bay. The gables are coped with kneelers. At the rear, two-light stone mullioned windows are present on both floors. A projecting wing extends from the left side at the rear, built with matching materials. This wing is also two storeys and has an attic, with one bay. A blocked three-light stone mullioned window is on the ground floor, a similar window enlarged in the 20th century is on the first floor and partly blocked, and a two-light stone mullioned window is in the attic. The rear wing has a coped gable with a stack at its apex. The interior features stop-chamfered spine beams, open fireplaces, and a fireplace in a rear ground-floor room with a wood bolection moulded surround. An early 18th-century staircase is present, with twisted balusters and a moulded handrail.