Listed Building record MDO9517 - Crichel House, Moor Crichel

Country house constructed in 1743 on the site of a 17th century house. Additions were carried out during the 1770s, in 1840 and 1867.

It is of three storeys with attics and basements, has walls of rendered brickwork with ashlar dressings, and roof-coverings of slate and of lead The central part of the house was built by Sir William Napier about the middle of the 18th century to replace a 17th-century house burnt down in 1742. A vignette in an estate map by I.Taylor, undated but probably of c. 1770, shows Sir William's house as a three-storeyed building with an E. front of seven bays and a S. front of five bays; the plan was quadrilateral, with a projecting W. wing. In 1765 the property passed to Humphrey Sturt of Horton, and subsequently the house was greatly enlarged, E., W. and S. ranges being added on such a scale as almost to conceal the former building; in height the added ground-floor rooms encompass two storeys of the Napier house. Sturt's additions may be assigned to the middle and late 1770s. Further additions were made in 1840 and 1867. Crichel House, a remarkably handsome example of a late 18th-century country seat, incorporates at its centre a more modest house built about the middle of the century. Of both periods the decorations and joinery are of admirable quality. <2>

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Jan 30 2023 7:08AM