The Croft, Main Street, Longforgan

The Croft is a large villa dating from 1885 or 1895, with a later billiards room addition of 1900. It incorporates an earlier L-shaped farmhouse, creating a T-shaped plan overall. The exterior is harled with painted ashlar dressings, a piended slate roof, and panelled brick ridge stacks with oversailing coping. The windows are thinly architraved with sash and case frames, originally featuring plate glass at the bottom and large diamond-pane glazing at ground floor level, and multi-pane glazing at the first floor level. Many of the ground floor windows have been replaced with uPVC frames and plate glass. Canted and projecting windows are present on the south elevation, slate-hung between floors with semi-piended or facetted roofs. There are bracketed eaves and boarded soffits, along with slender finials.

The west elevation features an entrance tower in the re-entrant angle, with plasterwork panels above the entrance depicting flowers and a rising sun. A blank bay is recessed to the right, and a stair tower to the left has a stepped tripartite window and a pyramidal roof, partially obscured by a single-storey, pentice-roofed bay with three windows. A gable is advanced to the left, with a door and bipartite window masked by a coped semi-circular curtain wall, supporting a projecting window with a swept roof at the first floor.

The south elevation has a central gable with a canted window to the ground and first floors. The entrance tower is in the re-entrant angle, as previously described, with a window to the return and a projecting window to the ground and first floors. Recessed bays on the right are part of the 1900 addition, and feature a window on the ground floor and a bipartite window with a cat-slide roof on the first floor. Further right, a canted window extends to both the ground and first floor.

The east gable displays an outshot stack in the centre, with original windows to the left and right, and a first-floor window breaking through the eaves with a semi-piended roof.

The north elevation is a long and asymmetrical facade, including a slightly advanced blank gable to the left and an addition in the re-entrant angle. Later forestairs are located centrally, with a bipartite window to the right, featuring decorative panels supporting a projecting window with a swept roof at the first floor. A further bipartite window and a single window are situated above, to the far right.

The interior originally featured a mosaic floor in the entrance porch and a panelled central hall with a staircase (which now has an enclosure). Simple pierced timber balusters were used on the staircase. Chimneypieces have been removed, and some walls have been taken down. A balustraded terrace wall is located to the south.