Croft Head Farmhouse And Attached Railings At Rear

Croft Head Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse located in Wrelton. It is constructed of squared limestone with sandstone ashlar quoins, dressings, and an eaves course, topped by a pantile roof with brick stacks. The building is two stories high and features a three-window front. The entrance is a board door located to the centre left, beneath a blind patterned fanlight. The windows are 16-pane sashes with painted stone sills, and all openings are adorned with tripartite lintels and triple keyblocks. The gables are coped, and shaped kneelers are present. There are stacks at the ends and left of centre.

At the rear, which faces the street, there is a six-panel door with a Gothick-glazed overlight to the right of a round-headed Gothick-glazed window, both set beneath keyed rounded archivolts. To the left, there is a single-storey outshut with a 12-pane sash window. The corners of the outshut are canted and finished with coved corbels at the eaves level.

Inside, the ground floor features beaded joists throughout. The room to the left contains a notable triple-arched hearth with a Wrelton range. In the room to the right of the door, the original fireplace surround, which has fluted jambs and corner roundels, can be seen behind a later fireplace.

The property also includes square-section railings with urn finials, which are raised on a chamfered plinth and partly enclose a small garden. On the south side, the railings span a large square waterbutt made of tooled stone, which collects run-off water from the adjacent range of farm buildings.