Kirkby and Annesley Area
25. No. 13 The Croft, Church Street25. No. 13 The Croft, Church Street
||Name of Building: No 13, The Croft
Address: Church Street (East Side), Kirkby
Grade of Listing:
II
Date of Listing:
Grid Reference: SK 45 NE
Group Value: Yes
Serial No: 3/37
House, C16. Rebuilt C18 and altered mid C20. Rendered, with sprocketed C20 pantile roof. Single mid C20 twisted ridge stack. Large external gable stack, coursed and squared rubble, with mid C19 brick plinth and stalks. Storeys, 3 bays. Windows are C19 casements and sashes and C20 casements. Openings have rendered blocked surrounds.
West front has central door flanked by single casements. Above, 3 sashes. Rear has, to left, 2 casements. To right, C20 lean-to porch. Above, to left, Yorkshire sash. To right, leaded casement and beyond, C20 casement.
North gable has a casement on each floor. To left, single storey lean-to outbuilding with door. To its left, late C20 single bay bungalow.
This building is said to be the birthplace of Huntingdon Smythson, architect, whose father John Smythson, the architect, lived there.
This building is in the Kirkby Conservation Area.
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