Crawley Old Town

THREE PICTURES: Friends Meeting House Mounting Block

Mounting blocks were used to help riders mount their horses. This example was provided in the 18th century for worshippers at the Friends Meeting House. The main structure is brick, but the three steps have stone treads. There is a space inside for storage. The top of the block is spanned by a stone lintel. The structure is recognised separately by English Heritage, which listed it at Grade II on 23 February 1983.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifield_Friends_Meeting_House#Mounting_block

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THREE PICTURES: Upper Prestwood Farm

Situated in the manor of Prestwood northwest of Ifield, the "unspoilt" main building on Upper Prestwood Farm is early-15th-century. It was built as an open hall house of four bays, into which a smoke bay was fitted later. When chimneys were invented, chimney-stacks and hearths superseded this. The building is timber-framed with a brick ground floor, and a crown post roof survives.

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THREE PICTURES: Blackwater Cottage (Pound Hill)

This small, two-storey cottage is partly tile-hung, partly weatherboarded and also has some exterior brickwork. The tiled roof is steeply hipped on one side. One of the chimneys is original. The building is no later than early-18th-century.

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SIX PICTURES: Frogshole Farm

Now a pub in the new Maidenbower neighbourhood, this mid-16th-century farmhouse is near St Nicholas' Church in Worth. It is a plaster- and brick-faced timber-framed structure with an old chimney connected to a large fireplace. One original window, with diamond mullions, remains. It reopened in July 2008 after a serious fire in February 2007.

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FOUR PICTURES: Toll House, Worth

Worth's former toll house is a single-storey structure with stucco walls and a shallow-pitched roof of slate. Its three wings form a T-shape. The entrance is in the south wing, through a gabled porch.

This one is very much hidden from public view, so bot much to see I’m afraid.

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EIGHT PICTURES: Green Lane Old Cottage, Worth

This 17th-century cottage in Worth is one of two thatched cottages in the borough; the other is the older Radford Farmhouse. Although it is timber-framed, the beams are supported by infilled brickwork—an early example of this technique, which became common in Crawley. The west side differs: it has a tile-hung upper storey. The chimney is 18th-century.

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TEN PICTURES: Street House, Worth

This 17th-century house, formerly an inn in the village of Worth, stands by the lychgate of St Nicholas' Church. Weatherboarding and brickwork hides the timber framing of the walls, and the roof is tiled with slabs of Horsham stone.