Description

CROSBY

SD3101 LITTLE CROSBY ROAD, Little Crosby
778-1/4/177 (East side)
26/03/73 Nos.18 AND 20
(Formerly Listed as:
LITTLE CROSBY ROAD, Little Crosby
Nos.18-22 (Even))

GV II

Farmhouse and cottage. Probably later C17, partly rebuilt in
C18 or C19, and altered. Large dressed sandstone blocks to
ground floor and brick above, all painted white, gable wall of
coursed sandstone rubble with quoins; stone slate roof and
brick chimneys. Three-unit one-and-a-half depth plan, with
rear outshut.
EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, 2+1 windows; with a chamfered plinth.
Between the 2nd and 3rd bays is a pair of doorways, that to
the left with a chamfered surround and Tudor-arched lintel and
that to the right formerly similar but now blocked with old
stone. No.18 has a 3-light window on each floor, No.20 has
windows of 3 and 5 lights at ground floor, 3 and 3 above, and
all these windows have chamfered wooden mullions except that
at ground floor of No.18 which has stone mullions. Small oval
plaque at 1st floor of No.20 ("Conservation Area"). Ridge
chimney in line with doorway of No.20, rebuilt gable chimney
to No.18. Right-hand gable wall of No.18 has lean-to with
doorway in south end and former doorway at 1st floor with
Tudor-arched lintel.
INTERIOR: No.20 has large C17 inglenook with moulded bressumer
beam and chamfered spine beam; inserted partition at lower end
to form passage; 2 service rooms. No.18: upper floor was
formerly a granary.
Collectively all the buildings in Little Crosby Conservation
Area form a valuable group of similar scale but varied dates,
materials and style.

Listing NGR: SD3192301427

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548903

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Recommended Books

• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5