Croft Head Farmhouse And Attached Railings At Rear

WRELTON THE VILLAGE SE 7686-7786 (south side) 17/108 Croft Head Farmhouse and attached railings at rear GV II

Farmhouse. Early C19. Squared limestone with sandstone ashlar quoins, dressings and eaves course; pantile roof with brick stacks. 2-storey, 3-window front. Centre left board door beneath blind patterned fanlight. Windows throughout are 16-pane sashes with painted stone sills. All openings have tripartite lintels with triple keyblocks. Coped gables and shaped kneelers. End and left-of-centre stacks. Rear (on street): 6-panel door, with Gothick-glazed overlight, to right of round-headed Gothick-glazed window, both beneath keyed rounded archivolts. Single-storey outshut at left with 12-pane sash. The quoined corners of the outshut are canted and finished with coved corbels at eaves level. Interior. Beaded joists throughout ground floor. Room to left contains a fine triple-arched hearth with a Wrelton range. In room to right of door, the original fireplace surround, with fluted jambs and corner roundels, is detectable behind a later fireplace. Railings. Square-section railings with urn finials, raised on a chamfered plinth, partly enclose a small garden. On south side the railings span a massive square waterbutt of tooled stone, set beneath them, in which run-off water from the range of farmbuildings (qv) is collected.

Listing NGR: SE7672486049