Description

Circa 1878. 2 storey with upper breaking eaves, 3-bay, T-plan, symmetrical quarry workers house facing S towards River Dee. Central doorway with flanking windows. Pedimented wallhead dormers to outer bays. To N (rear) at 1st floor, doorway previously accessing separate upper flatted dwelling, evidence of previous bridged access from adjacent retaining wall (building now all in single ownership). Stugged, squared and coursed granite.

4-pane sash and case timber and uPVC windows, 6-panel late 20th century stained timber door. Grey slated roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Tooled granite skews. Stugged, squared granite stacks with simple cornice, octagonal clay cans. Cast-iron rhones and rhone pipes

INTERIOR: admission not obtained at time of survey (2006).

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: Stugged, squared, and snecked granite boundary walls with bull faced coping. Square, tooled gate piers with narrow ashlar margins, bull faced capitals. Wrought-iron gate and railings.

Statement of Interest

Crookmore is a good example of a little altered traditional building that presents a distinctive frontage to the main road. It forms one of a group of buildings of the same design scheme which were probably built to house workers of a nearby granite quarry. Crookmore along with Moor House and Heathbank to the W all retain their original contiguous boundary walls, gate piers, railings and gates. Listed B Group with Moor house and Heathbank.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77779851

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)