Crogen

Small entrance hall with pointed-arched doorway to a stairwell beyond; late C19 polychromed tiled floor. The Dining Room leads off to the L. This has a good Gothic sandstone fireplace in accomplished Perpendicular style, with pierced quatrefoil oculi and cusped, latticed frieze; foliated bosses to moulded cornice. The room has a Gothick cornice of intersecting tracery and a wide Tudor-arched bay to the front; panelled, blind-tracery architraves and three 7-panel doors; similar shutters and reveals. Narrow full-height (c1830) well stair with swept mahogany rail and cast iron Gothic ogee balusters. The first-floor medieval Solar was originally open to the roof (now sub-divided). This was of 4 bays and one of the original trusses is visible; shallow pointed arch with moulded principals.

Medium-sized country house in simple Regency Gothic style, its picturesque asymmetry reflecting its earlier origins. Irregular plan, of hall and cross-wing type, in which the wing is the surviving primary block. Further service ranges to the rear loosely enclose a courtyard. The house is of local irregular stone construction with traces of former render; slate roofs, mostly shallow-hipped, with oversailing verges and plain bargeboards, plain chimneys.

The primary (E) wing is of two-and-a-half storeys, and has a steeply-pitched roof with gable to the entrance front. This has a large 4-light wooden C19 Gothic window with cusped upper lights, and forms a pair of French windows with 3-pane glazing to each section; stucco surround and simple returned label. Above this is a pointed-arched window of similar type with intersecting wooden tracery and small-pane glazing. This is an 1830s insert into a pre-existing tall window opening which was correspondingly partly filled in. Of this earlier window only the pointed-arched upper section remains. Early C14 and of sandstone, the surviving cusped tracery lights are of good quality; the window evidently originated as a 2-light ecclesiastical tracery window. The cross-wing's E elevation has two large, early projecting lateral chimney stacks to the Solar cross-wing, with triple off-set stacks having moulded capping. The right-hand chimney has had an arched window inserted at ground-floor level and the masonry infilled flush, so that the chimney is now corbelled-out at first-floor height. Between the two is an arched French window to the ground floor with a 2-light window above, the latter with pointed-arched heads and multi-pane lights; labels and surrounds as before.

Adjoining flush with this wing on the L is a lower, 2-storeyed porch extrusion. This has an entrance with part-glazed doors and geometric glazing to the margins; stucco surround and label, as before. Two-light window to the first floor with intersecting tracery lights and small-pane glazing, with similar surround and label; C20 flag pole affixed to upper gable. Set back to the L of the porch are 2 further bays, that to the far L gabled. French windows with surrounds to the ground floor, that to the L a 2-light, that to the R of 4-lights; cusped tracery heads. The first floor has a 2-light window with lozenge glazing to the L and a 4-light window with simpler cusping to the heads; no label to the latter. The gabled section to the L has a broad storeyed, canted bay projecting to its western return; this with hipped roof.

Set back and half overlapping the rear gable of the Solar wing is a rectangular 2-storey block with large central stack and rendered E gable. Extruded in the angle between this and the Solar block is a lean-to porch with slated roof and canted Gothic bay; French windows with arched lights as before. Adjoining the rear block to the N is a single-storey service range with whitened inner elevation facing a small slate-flagged court. The outer (garden) elevation, facing E, has a 3-light window with a depressed-arched garden niche built in to the R; plain stucco surround; a large rectangular pitched-roofed louvre surmounts the roof of this block. Adjoining this to the N are two store buildings: the first has a mono-pitch corrugated asbestos roof, with a boarded door facing the service court and a window with boarded shutter to the L; the second has a pitched slate roof with doorway and window beyond to the S face. Adjoining this at right-angles to the W, and separated by a short rubble wall, is a rectangular single-storey slated range with three C20 12-pane 2-part casements to the N side; two boarded doors flank a square light to the R on the S side, modern boarded garage doors to the W gable. This block partly encloses a cobbled service court on the N side, which leads out from the narrow flagged yard to the rear of the main range. Closing this on the W side is a large, 1830s, 3-storey service wing with wide, shallow-pitched roof and 2 central chimneys, that to the W especially large. This has a 3-bay yard elevation with whitened ground floor having a boarded door to the R; 2-part 12-pane casements to the upper floors, with intersecting glazing bars. Entrance with boarded door to the N gable, with 2 blocked openings (former entrances) to its L; simple triple-light Gothic window to the first floor. Adjoining this range to the R (W) and curving around in an arc to the N is a rubble wall, some 2m high, which defines the service court to the W; wooden gate adjacent to the building.

The W side has a broad full-height canted central bay to the storeyed service range, which projects into a narrow gravelled yard defined on the W side by sloping revetment walls. These return eastwards towards the house with the southern (front) lawns ramped up to effectively screen this service yard from the front view. Here 4 stone steps lead down to a coal shed with brick arch, boarded doors and 4-pane overlight.