Crogbren

House, timber-frame and painted brick with slate roof and brick stack to left of centre. One and a half storeys. Exposed framing to front with thinner timbers (indicating raising) to top row of panels and centre gable. Gable has casement-pair to right and blocked two-light to left, C19 or C20 bargeboards and finial. Ground floor has a small modern window in third bay, modern flat-roofed porch in front of doorway in fifth bay. Doorway has C17 shaped head. Small renewed window in seventh bay, and last two bays (ninth and tenth) added faced in painted rubble stone with modern half-glazed door below but thin framing continued above. Rubble stone W end wall. Rear is timber-framed with lighter timbers to first floor which has two casement pair windows under eaves. Ground floor window to left of modern conservatory, with door and window within. Brick lean-to to right, in angle to rear wing. Left end gable to E is timber-framed with bargeboards and finial. Framing shows that the walls have been raised, modern casement pair window to attic and two casement pairs below. Frame of three panels by four in width with diagonal lower braces. Another raking brace to left indicates a former low outshut now built into added SE rear wing. This is the former Chirbury Road toll house, and has two casement pairs each floor on E side and S gable end of three panels deep by four wide, with diagonal lower braces. Two ground floor casement-pair windows and one to attic. Windowless W wall.

Lobby entry. Shaped head to recess on N side of chimney breast. Stopped and chamfered beams with joists in two main rooms. Room to right of entry has oak fireplace lintel, narrow corner staircase rising against E wall which has timber-framed partition encasing original tie-beam and collar truss, possibly the original end wall, now internal as house has been extended by one bay W. Room to left has a timber fireplace beam on rebuilt supports. Built-in cupboard. Partition to added SE wing which has two beams and joists. Roof has been raised at front but retaining heavy purlins.