Crogbren

This is a timber-frame house with painted brick and a slate roof, dating from the 17th century. The front elevation exhibits exposed timber framing, with thinner timbers indicating a raising of the structure. The gable has a casement-pair window to the right and a blocked two-light window to the left, along with 19th or 20th-century bargeboards and finial. The ground floor features a small modern window in the third bay, a modern flat-roofed porch in front of the doorway in the fifth bay, a renewed window in the seventh bay, and the last two bays (ninth and tenth) are additions faced in painted rubble stone with a modern half-glazed door, though the timber framing is continued above. A rubble stone west end wall is also present.

The rear of the house is timber-framed, with lighter timbers on the first floor, which has two casement-pair windows under the eaves. A modern conservatory occupies part of the ground floor, and a brick lean-to is attached to the right, forming an angle with a rear wing. The left-hand gable on the east side is timber-framed with bargeboards and a finial. The framing shows that the walls have been raised, and there’s a modern casement-pair window to the attic and two below. One panel is braced diagonally at the lower level, and another raking brace on the left suggests a former low outshut now incorporated into a southeast rear wing. This wing was formerly the Chirbury Road toll house and features two casement pairs on each floor, with a front gable end of three panels by four, braced diagonally at the lower level. It has two ground floor casement-pair windows and one to the attic, and a windowless west wall.

Inside, there is a lobby entry with a shaped head recess on the north side of the chimney breast. The two principal rooms have stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and joists. A room to the right of the entry has an oak fireplace lintel and a narrow corner staircase rising against the east wall. A timber-framed partition within this room encloses the original tie-beam and collar truss, likely the original end wall now internal due to a one-bay westward extension. A room to the left has a timber fireplace beam on rebuilt supports and a built-in cupboard. A partition divides the added southeast wing, which has two beams and joists. The roof has been raised at the front, but retains heavy purlins.