In England, a building or structure is defined as "listed" when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest" by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a Government department, in accordance with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.[3]Historic England, a non-departmental public body, acts as an agency of this department to administer the process and advise the department on relevant issues.[4] There are three grades of listing status: Grade I, defined as being of "exceptional interest"; Grade II*, "particularly important buildings of more than special interest"; and Grade II, used for buildings of "special interest".[5]
Crawley has three buildings of Grade I status, 12 listed at Grade II* and 87 of Grade II status. The three Grade I buildings are all places of worship, and churches and farmhouses feature frequently in the list. Other structures given recognition by English Heritage include a signal box, a watermill, and the Beehive[1]—a "revolutionary"[6] purpose-built circular building which was the original passenger terminal at Gatwick Airport and the world's first fully integrated airport terminal.[7][8]
The design of the New Town was based on a series of self-contained residential neighbourhoods around a town centre with commercial and civic buildings. There are now 13 neighbourhoods in the town.[9]Pound Hill and Ifield, old villages absorbed by the postwar development, have 28 and 24 listed buildings respectively. Northgate, which has 18, includes much of the town centre and the old High Street. Langley Green, in which there are 15 listed buildings, is the largest neighbourhood with a large semi-rural hinterland. Elsewhere, there are six listed buildings in West Green, two each in Bewbush and Southgate, and one in each of Broadfield, Gossops Green, Maidenbower, Three Bridges and Tilgate. Furnace Green is the only neighbourhood with no listed buildings.[1]
Crawley Borough Council maintains a list of all listed buildings. Last updated in 2011, some of its information supersedes the older information carried by English Heritage's online archive, Images of England, which was compiled in February 2001 and which identifies 95 listed buildings in the borough.[10] An early-19th-century house called Charlwood Park, listed at Grade II on 11 November 1966,[11] was originally within the parish of Charlwood in the county of Surrey. The Local Government Act 1972, which moved parts of Surrey (including Lowfield Heath and Gatwick Airport) from Surrey into West Sussex, also moved this house into West Sussex and the Borough of Crawley. It was subsequently demolished,[12] but is still shown in the Images of England archive. Buildings listed since the council's last update are Lowfield Hall, a house at Lowfield Heath, and the war memorial in the nearby church.
A Quaker community was established in Ifield in the mid-17th century, and by 1676—when the meeting house was built—more than a quarter of residents were Nonconformist Christians. It has been used continuously for worship since then, and is one of the oldest purpose-built Quaker meeting houses in existence. The twin-gabled building is of Sussex stone and has a simple 18th-century interior.
When built in the 13th century on the site of a 10th-century church, St Margaret's was at the centre of a large parish with a scattered population. Ifield itself was merely a hamlet clustered around the church. The oldest surviving part is one end of the chancel. The building experienced renovations and reordering in the Victorian era.
The church is of Saxon origin—probably 10th-century—and is unusually tall and wide for a church of that era. Worth was originally a Wealden village with its own parish, but boundary changes brought the church and part of the parish within the Borough of Crawley. Some structural changes were made in the 13th century, and restoration work took place in 1871 and after a fire in 1986.
This two-storey timber-framedhall house was built in around 1475; the brick and tile facings are 18th-century. The Friends Meeting House was built on its eastern side in 1676 when the cottage's owner donated land to the Quaker community.
This timber-framed hall-house was built around 1450, partly on the site of an older building which was then integrated with it. The four-bay building was restored from a near-derelict state in the 1930s, and was owned by champion boxer Alan Minter in the late 20th century.
The core of this large building, now a nursery school, is an early-17th-century timber-framed house with jettying at one end and a tile-hung upper storey. The tiled roof uses Horsham stone. An extension was built in the same style in the 20th century.
On the Surrey border and now just outside the perimeter of Gatwick Airport, this 15th-century open hall-house was altered in the 17th century. The ground floor has timber framing, the first floor is tile-hung, and the gabled roof is tiled and has a 17th-century chimney. The building is jettied all around.
In the Crawley area there were originally six timber-framed houses surrounded by moats; Ewhurst Place, built in the late 16th century on a much older site, is the only example where both the house and the complete moat remain. The walls are variously tile-hung, brick-faced or timber-framed. Horsham stone tiles are used on the roof, which is hipped at two ends. The name Ewhurst ("Yew Wood") is one of the area's oldest farm names.
Like Ewhurst Place, this was a timber-framed building on a moated site; only part of the moat remains. Originally built in the 15th century as an open hall-house, it experienced several alterations in later centuries: new floors, chimneys, cross-beamed ceilings, windows and a staircase were added. The building now houses a restaurant, bar and conference facilities.
This late-15th-century timber-framedhall house has performed many roles in Crawley's history, from its early use as a farmhouse to its 20th-century commercial uses: a tearoom, a bank and now a public house. There are five bays, all of which are jettied, and a large chimney at the north end.
Based on a small deposit of gravel, offering good drainage in an area of heavy clay, this farmhouse dates from the 15th or 16th century and was built as a five-bay timber-framed smoke bay house (a later version of the open hall-house). A chimney was added in the 18th century. A fatal aeroplane crash occurred here in 1936.
Crawley's parish church dates from the 13th century, and some original parts remain; but many alterations have been made over the centuries, including the rebuilt tower of 1807.
William Burges built this yellow sandstoneFrench Gothic-style church in 1867 as the Anglican parish church of the (now depopulated) village of Lowfield Heath. Since 1974, it has been in the Borough of Crawley within the Langley Green neighbourhood, and is now used by a Seventh-day Adventist Church congregation.
Frank Hoar designed this revolutionary circular building—the first fully integrated airport terminal in the world—in 1934. It was completed by 1936, and is now used as offices.
Commemorated in paintings and fiction, visited by monarchs and used as a venue for public executions, this coaching inn has existed since the 15th century and has expanded to take in adjacent buildings. Its popularity was greatest during the 18th and 19th centuries, when it developed its reputation as Crawley's most famous and important building. Its core is a timber-framed hall-house of the mid-15th century.
A 19th-century reconstruction obscures a timber-framed cottage two centuries older. Stretcher bond brickwork and tiles are visible on the outside, and the roof is half-hipped. The house was used as a bakery for many years and is currently being restored for use as a private dwelling.
This has been converted into a shop and altered internally, but consists of a house of about 1620 with exposed chamfered timbers and a 19th-century corn-dealer's yard with a barn, storeroom, stables and shed. The house had a chimney, which has been removed, but the internal chimney bay remains.
This two-storey, red-brick, late-18th-century building (Crawley town centre's only survivor from this era) has been converted into two shops with residential accommodation above. The tiled roof has two original chimneys, and there are six old sash windows on the upper floor.
This is the main building on the Apple Tree Farm site, which is being redeveloped with housing and a Hindu temple. The 17th-century timber-framed farmhouse, with a tiled roof, was extended and faced in brick in the mid-19th century.
This building on the path leading to St John the Baptist's Church now presents a Gothic appearance, but was originally a timber-framed hall-house built in the 16th century. The remodelling was done in the mid-19th century. It is now partly tile-hung and has a steeply pitched tiled roof with decorative bargeboards on its gables.
This small cottage was built no later than the mid-18th century, although there is a modern section constructed of similar materials. It stands off Langley Lane on land belonging to Apple Tree Farm, and is now surrounded by new houses. The partly timber-framed building is tile-hung on the upper floor. A large chimney stack stands at the west end.
Now divided into three shops, this was built in around 1600 as a four-bay timber-framed hall-house. It was converted into shops by the 19th century, when it received a stucco exterior and four sash windows. It stands on a corner site; both street-facing elevations were originally jettied, but only the smaller north face is now.
This late-16th-century farmhouse was converted into cottages in the 19th century but is now one house again. One of the oldest buildings in the area now covered by West Green, it is timber-framed and has exposed joists, beams and trusswork inside. The exterior is partly tile-hung.
Martyrs Farm, west of the London Road, was named after Protestantmartyr Thomas Dungate who was arrested there in 1556 and burnt at the stake. The farmhouse, now two houses, has exposed timber-framing, a tile-hung upper floor and a substantial chimney. A 20th-century extension was built in the same style.
This weatherboarded timber barn, historically known as Hyder's Barn, is adjacent to the former hall but was built later. A room from a former inn in nearby Reigate was moved to Crawley and used as the basis of a structure which connects the two. The barn now forms part of the Gatwick Manor Inn restaurant complex. Internally, the roof has queen post supports.
Standing next to Rowley Farmhouse, this is a medieval barn with a king post roof. The weatherboarded exterior conceals timber framing. The hipped roof is tiled.
The manor of Beaubusson was first mentioned in 1315, and a manor house and moat were built. The present building on the site is 15th- or 16th-century, but brick façades added to all walls in about 1850 hide the original timber framing. The windows date from then, but some 17th-century internal features survive.
Built in the late 16th century, this timber-framed farmhouse was altered in the 19th century when a brick façade was added. Some timber is still visible, and there is weatherboarding to the rear. The roof, steeply hipped to the sides, is tiled, and the original chimney survives.
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.
This 17th-century house, originally called Furnall Cottage, stands at the north end of the High Street between late-20th-century office blocks which have been designed in a complementary style. The ground floor was faced with bricks in the 18th century, and the first floor and roof are tiled.
Behind a mostly modern exterior is a well-preserved timber-framed open hall house of the 15th century. Several structural alterations were made between the 17th and 19th centuries.
This brick bridge across the moat at Ewhurst Place was built in 1739, according to a plaque above the single arch. The coping at the top is in a triangular pattern.
Built in about 1830, this stuccoed, slate-roofed house was extended about 30 years later to add a three-bay hall and a gallery above. Later uses included council offices and Mercury FM's broadcast base, but in 2008 Crawley Borough Council granted planning permission to convert the building into 12 flats. This did not happen, and it was turned into a free school in 2011.
This timber-framed cottage with external brickwork and a tall chimney is one of the oldest houses in Ifield parish. It was started in about 1600, and retains some wattle and daub work from that era.
This is a mid-17th-century timber-framed house in the old hamlet of Tinsley Green, now part of the Pound Hill neighbourhood. It has three bays, one of which is carried forward as an entrance porch.
On the road to Turners Hill, this 16th-century cottage is timber-framed but has been clad externally in brick, weatherboarding and tiles. A tall chimney rises from the west side, and the interior retains inglenook fireplaces. Architect Philip Webb lived here and is commemorated by a blue plaque.
This large 17th-century house in Tinsley Green retains some external timber-framing and local stonework. Tile-hanging and brickwork are also in evidence. There is a small additional wing at the southeast corner, extending from the main east–west range.
The original church school of Ifield village is an 1840s Gothic-style stone building of three bays. The centre section has a roof with a wide gable; it is flanked by two recessed parts with smaller gabled sections. The tracery on the main ground-floor window echoes the style of a window in the adjacent St Margaret's Church.
This was built as a timber-framed cottage at the edge of Lowfield Heath in 1705, possibly as a conversion of an older barn. The building has been extended and converted into an office, but part of the original structure remains.
Although this four-bay timber-framed hall house lies within Gatwick Airport's boundary, surrounded by offices and a new hotel, its interior is well preserved: old timbers and open fireplaces remain. The roof has original tiles, and the exterior is partly brick and partly tile-hung. It adjoins Wing House, and dates from either the 15th century or c. 1520.
Now a house on the east side of London Road, this late-17th- or early-18th-century timber-framed structure was the Crawley parish workhouse by 1792. The roof is partly hipped, and this end has local tiles; the rest is of slate. The exterior exhibits a mix of exposed timber framing, stucco work, bricks and tiles.
A mansion called Tilgate, part of the 19th-century Tilgate estate (which covered 2,185 acres (884ha)), was demolished in the 20th century—but one of its lodges remains and is in residential use. It is octagonal and has a slate roof and brick chimney, but the rest of the building is flint.
These stand in the grounds of the former Worth Park mansion, which was the centre of a 2,055-acre (832ha)estate until it was sold for redevelopment in 1915. The grounds are still open to the public. Built as garden ornaments in 1884–87 by landscape gardenersJames Pulham and Son, the structures use pale terracotta and were pre-cast.
H. S. Goodhart-Rendel's 1958–1959 church is "an important component" of the postwar centre of the New Town. It is now a Roman Catholic parish church, but was originally built for an order of Capuchinfriars who were based at the site from 1861 until 1981. The new church's sanctuary is on the site of the old nave. The multicoloured brick building has a strongly patterned concrete ceiling.
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.
The training centre building itself has a separate listing from the 18th-century stone structure which forms its boundary with the pavement on the road to Turners Hill. The wall is about 6 feet (1.8m) tall and has large stone blocks with dressings and a cornice, and incorporates an entrance doorway with an architrave and pediment of the same materials.
This timber-framed 16th-century building—the remnants of a four-bay open hall-house—was a farmhouse but is now a pub. Actor Peter Vaughan lived in the L-shaped building before its conversion. The brick-supported timber work is still in place on the ground floor; the upper storey is tiled, and the roof has Horsham stone tiles.
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.
This cottage is attached to Old Plough Cottage on the east side, and dates from the 18th century. The ground floor has diaper pattern brickwork, while the upper floor is hung with lozenge-shaped tiles.
Formerly a farmhouse, this is believed to date from the 17th century. Its timber framing is augmented with white-painted brick. The front of the house, facing north, has a five-window range and a small porch with a gabled roof.
This large former farmhouse, now a restaurant and pub, combines a four-bay 16th-century structure and an extra perpendicular wing added in the 19th century, when the rest of the building was restored with new brickwork and windows. The steep tiled roof has a large chimney stack. Inside, a narrow 18th-century wooden staircase survives next to a fireplace.
This 17th-century building, altered two centuries later, has been a pub for most of its life, but other commercial activities have also taken place in it. It is now owned by the Vintage Inns chain. The two-storey brick building has a hipped slate roof with large eaves, a range of five sash windows and an original chimney-stack. A 19th-century brick carriage arch projects from the side wall.
This 16th-century house was converted into a pub in the 1970s after a demolition threat was averted. The core of the greatly extended building is a two-storey, two-bay, timbered hall-house with some old brickwork. The hipped roof is tiled and has some gableddormer windows.
The third building to stand on this site—after an iron forge and an earlier mill—is a 19th-century weatherboarded structure of three storeys, which was saved from dereliction in the 1970s when the Borough Council bought it. The ground floor is of brick, and the deeply eaved roof has slates from Wales. Volunteers have restored it to working order.
One of the earliest buildings on the London Road north of Crawley High Street, this 16th-century farmhouse was extended in the 18th and 19th centuries but retains substantial internal timberwork. The oldest part, the rear of the present building, has a steep, long roof and a tile-hung upper storey. The south side has a large full-height chimney.
This low, wide barn, with six bays and weatherboarded walls, is in the grounds of Jordan's and is part of the same complex. It was built in 1642 and retains some original timber beams inside.
This pair of K6telephone booths stand on the west side of Crawley High Street. The GPO commissioned Giles Gilbert Scott to produce the design—a bright red, cast iron box with a curved roof and crown motifs—in 1935.
This three-bay house incorporates a chimney stack in the west end of one bay. An extension was built using matching materials in the mid-19th century. The upper floor, below the tiled half-hipped roof, is hung with lozenge-shaped tiles; the walls of the ground floor are white-painted brick.
This early-17th-century cottage's main architectural feature is a stair vyse—a type of spiral staircase—whose newel extends the full three-storey height of the building. The house is timber-framed and clad in stone, brick and tiles, and has three bays and a prominent chimney.
Exterior paintwork hides a brick-built ground floor and a tiled upper storey of this late-18th-century house. Original chimneys, an inglenook and internal timber work are still in place, but the attached porch is modern.
This timber-framed house, built in the 16th century, survives among the factories and warehouses of the Manor Royal industrial estate. Many additions since the 19th century have transformed the north–south two-bayed building into an L-shaped structure with a prominent porch. A stone chimney-stack extends from ground level on the north side.
This was built as a barn in the first quarter of the 17th century, probably to serve Charlwood House which is adjacent. As originally built it would have been a weatherboarded timber structure. It was extended in the 18th century, given brick panelled walls in the 19th century and converted to residential use in or before the 1970s.
St Nicholas' Church has a 17th-century lychgate at its churchyard entrance. The roof is of Horsham stone, and the body is of timber arranged into arch formations on each side. It was rebuilt in 1956.
This timber-framed cottage was built in the 17th century at the northeast corner of Ifield's village green. Brickwork supports the timbers on the ground floor, and tiles cover the first floor walls. The roof comes down steeply on the north side, nearly to ground level. An entrance porch and tall chimney-stack stand at the west end.
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 three-step structure of stone treads on a brick base has storage space below its lintel.
This large and significantly altered house on Ifield Green has as its core a timber-framed building of about 1600. This part has a large chimney, weatherboarding and brickwork, and a tiled roof. The largest part of the building is the 19th-century east face, and a 20th-century addition projects from the west side. An 18th-century staircase survives inside.
This adjoins County Oak Cottage but is now believed to have been built later in the 18th century. The adjacent Lowfield Heath was still open land at the time. It is brick-built and tile-clad, with a partly hipped roof.
This L-shaped building dates from the early 18th century. The south wall has weatherboarding on both storeys, but other walls are brick to the ground floor and tile-hung on the upper storey. The brick chimneys on the tiled roof are original.
This single-storey cottage forms an architectural group with the adjacent Oakfield Cottage, although it was built more than a century later. The stuccoed walls are topped by a hipped roof which supports a large chimney in the centre. The windows and doorcase are hood-moulded.
This 17th- or early-18th-century cottage is in an isolated area known as Fernhill, at the northeast corner of the borough. The structural pattern is similar to many of Crawley's houses of that era, though: timber-framing hidden by ground-floor brickwork and first-floor tiles, and a tiled roof. A chimney rises at the west end from a foundation of local stone, quarried in Charlwood.
This small 18th-century house is on Upper Prestwood Farm close to the Grade II-listed farmhouse. Its roughcast walls hide brickwork and timber framing, and the tiled roof is hipped. It is supported on staddle stones.
Like Jordans, this was an early example of development stretching north up the London Road. The timber-framed cottage is late-17th-century but has been added to in the 19th century and more recently. The tiled roof, hipped at both ends, is original, as is the brickwork and tile-hanging on the west and south faces. The roof supports a chimney-stack.
This house may originally have been an open hall-house of 2½ bays: some of the internal timberwork is heavily blackened by smoke. Chimneys have been added at both ends of the partly hipped roof. The timber framework is mostly obscured by brickwork and tiles, but some is visible on an extension at the rear.
This early-17th-century L-shaped building was originally the Old Plough Inn; the modern Plough, built next door, superseded it in around 1900. It has been renovated, but retains its original chimney and roof tiles. Elizabeth Fry held a Quaker meeting here in 1837.
The owner of Tinsley Forge, Tinsley Green's ironworking facility (and one of Sussex's last working forges), built this three-bay timber-framed house for himself in the early 17th century. The two-storey building is mostly tiled on the exterior, but some plasterwork remains. A gabled porch provides the entrance, and there is a stair turret. The slate roof supports a chimney. The house is no longer a farm, but is still occupied.
Part of a group formed by the adjacent Old Plough Cottage and Harrow Cottage, this is the newest of the buildings: it was built in 1900 to replace the Old Plough, which was converted to residential use. The walls are clad in painted cement, and the roof is tiled and has two chimneys. Pevsner described it as "specially nice".
This barn in the grounds of Poles Acre Farm on the edge of Lowfield Heath was built in the 17th century. Its three bays are timber-framed and supported by exterior brickwork. Internally, the roof is held up by queen posts, struts and purlins.
The James Pulham and Son firm of landscape gardeners created this 10-foot (3.0m)-wide artificial island in the 1880s as a decorative feature for the lake in the grounds of Worth Park mansion, owned by Sir F.A. Montefiore. It is of Pulhamiteartificial stone and lies on a base of clinker and old bricks.
Another 1880s feature of the former Worth Park mansion's landscaped gardens, provided by James Pulham and Son using their own Pulhamite artificial rock, this rockery is nearly 50 feet (15m) long and about 5 feet (1.5m) tall. There is space inside for plants. The foundations are of scrap bricks and clinker cement.
Few thatched roofs have survived in the Crawley area, but this two-storey cottage has one. It is 16th-century, possibly from the 1550s. Situated next to Brookside in the old hamlet of Tinsley Green, it may have functioned as that farm's barn before being converted into a house in its own right. There is some exposed timber-framing and white-painted brickwork. Chimney-stacks at each end and a series of casement and dormer windows are also visible.
This brick structure, built in 1877, replaced a smaller signal box which opened with the railway line through Crawley in 1848. From 1978, it was downgraded to a "crossing box"—its only function was controlling the adjacent level crossing where the railway crossed Crawley High Street. It closed completely on 20 April 1986, but has been preserved. The ground floor has two round-arched windows between brick pilasters, and there are sash windows on the first floor, below the hipped roof.
This small cottage sits on the east side of the Balcombe–Horley road. It has one full storey with attic space above, and is mostly 17th-century—although it may have been extended in the following century and was further added to in the 20th century. The tiled roof is gabled at each end. The timber framework is still visible.
Now in residential use, this Classical-style brick and stone structure of 1882 was the stable-block of the former Worth Park mansion (now demolished). It could accommodate 18 carriages. The windows are topped by pediments, and there are some dormer windows facing the quadrangle-style courtyard. Each face of the central three-storey clock tower has pairs of oculi as well. The tower is surrounded by two-storey ranges.
This cottage was built on the Rusper Road in the early 19th century. The partly red-brick, partly tile-hung house has a tall chimney stack on the south side. The roof is of Welsh slate.
When the Bewbush neighbourhood was built in the 1980s, this 17th-century barn was retained, and was later converted into the estate's Anglican church. It is timber-framed with a dark weatherboarded exterior. Queen posts and tie-beams support the roof, whose exterior is tiled.
On Poles Lane close to Lowfield Heath, this open hall-house of 1604 retains its original smoke bay. The ground floor is of brick; above is tile-hung attic space. A chimney rises next to the south face. The entrance is through a gabled porch. An extra bay was added on the north side, and is used as a kitchen.
The modern garden centre surrounds the former Little Buckswood Farmhouse, which is part of the complex. It dates from the 16th century and is partly timber-framed (with some exterior brickwork) and partly tile-hung. The steep, tiled roof has both hips and gables, and its chimney has been dated to about 1600.
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.
Formerly in the civil parish of Burstow in neighbouring Surrey, this farmhouse was built in the 17th century and added to in the 18th and 19th centuries. A timber-framed structure is supported by brown and red brickwork below a tile-hung upper floor. The hipped tiled roof has a large chimney. The diamond-paned windows are 19th-century.
This stone tomb, raised on a plinth, has an oval-shaped projection on each side with decoration in the style of Robert Adam and inscriptions commemorating George and Mary Hutchinson, who were buried inside after their deaths in the late 18th century. The structure is topped by an urn.
Formerly the Ifield parish workhouse, this 18th-century building was divided into two cottages but is now a single unit again. There is a chimney stack at each end, an original tiled roof (whose gable ends are also tile-hung) and some timber framing. The windows are surrounded by red-brick dressings.
The endowment of St Margaret's Church vicarage dates from 1247, and there was a building on the present site by 1532. The present house was built in the early 17th century and altered in the early 19th century, and is of stuccoed brick with a roof of Welsh slate (most buildings of a similar age in the area use Horsham stone). The upper floor has gable-headed dormer windows.
This 18th-century cottage has timber-framing to the upper floor only; the ground floor is brick-built. A steep tiled roof extends nearly to ground level on the north side, and is hipped to the east. Some tile-hanging remains at first-floor level, but exposed timbers are visible on one side. A chimney stands at the west end.
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 former farmhouse, now disused, latterly controlled land between the Balcombe–Horley road and the M23 motorway. The L-shaped building, dating from the 17th century, is dominated by an enormous chimney-stack on the west corner. The ground floor is of brick; the first floor is hung with red tiles. The windows are casements.
Crawley's former manor house has been empty since the Borough Council moved its Citizens Advice Bureau and other functions elsewhere, and it lies in an area scheduled for redevelopment. The 15th-century open hall-house was rebuilt a century later, and has a largely 18th-century exterior, but retains original king posts, tie-beams and trusses. The L-shaped building consists of a north–south Great hall and an east–west solar.
One of several isolated houses in the Crawley area by the 15th century, this timber-framed cottage was extended in the next two centuries, and has five bays: three are original, and one was an open hall. It was converted into a smoke bay in the 16th century, when two bays were added; a chimney came later. The exterior exhibits timber framing, brickwork and tile-hanging.
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.
This granite-built war memorial dates from c. 1925 and commemorates 37 residents of Lowfield Heath who died during World War I. A further ten names were added after World War II. A small plaque refers to the Bodmin Granite Company of Bodmin, Cornwall. The memorial takes the form of a wheelhead ("Celtic") cross on a wide plinth.
This coaching inn was built in 1770—the year the London to Brighton road was fully turnpiked, improving the speed and convenience of stagecoaches and making Crawley the natural halfway stop. It replaced the smaller Ancient Priors, which until then had been an inn called The White Hart. The timber-framed, brick-clad structure incorporates part of an older building.
Until about 2006, this mid-16th-century structure functioned as the restaurant and bar of an airport staff social club, but it is now disused. Charlwood stone forms the base; above this is brickwork and timber-framing, topped by a tiled roof with some Horsham stonework. The interior has four bays. The purlins of the interior roof structure are smoke-blackened.
Formerly associated with the nearby Oakfield Cottage, this greatly extended house was built in the late 18th century. The original part is of stone and has two storeys with attics above. Extra wings were added in brick in the early 19th and early 20th centuries. The building has a mansard roof.
West Green is one of the 14 residential neighbourhoods in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. Crawley was planned and laid out as a New Town after the Second World War, based on the principle of self-contained neighbourhoods surrounding a town centre of civic and commercial buildings. West Green was the first neighbourhood to be developed, and is one of the smallest and closest to the town centre.
Ifield is a former village and now one of 14 neighbourhoods within the town of Crawley in West Sussex, England. Ifield is in the west of the town and is bordered by Ifield West, Horsham, Langley Green to the north east, West Green to the east across the ring road and Gossops Green and Bewbush to the south across the Arun Valley railway line.
Northgate is one of the 14 residential neighbourhoods in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. Crawley was planned and laid out as a New Town after the Second World War, based on the principle of self-contained neighbourhoods surrounding a town centre of civic and commercial buildings. Northgate was one of the four in the "inner ring" closest to the town centre, and was the second to be completed: almost all building work on the 168-acre (68 ha) site took place in the first half of the 1950s.
Charlwood is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England. It is immediately northwest of London Gatwick Airport in West Sussex, close west of Horley and north of Crawley. The historic county boundary between Surrey and Sussex ran to the south of Gatwick Airport. Boundaries were reformed in 1974 so that the county boundary between Surrey and West Sussex, delineated by the Sussex Border Path, now runs along the northern perimeter of the airport, and the southern extent of Charlwood.
St John the Baptist's Church is an Anglican church in Crawley, West Sussex, England. It is the parish church of Crawley, and is the oldest building in the town centre, dating from the 1250—although many alterations have been made since, and only one wall remains of the ancient building. In September 2017, a team from St Peter's Brighton began a new phase in the life of St John's Crawley. St John's offer a variety of services, traditional and informal, and contemporary services.
St Margaret's Church is an Anglican church in the Ifield neighbourhood of Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. It is the ancient parish church of the village of Ifield; the medieval settlement was expanded to form one of the New Town of Crawley's 13 neighbourhoods, and the church's modern parish now serves several other neighbourhoods as well.
The Ifield Friends Meeting House is a Friends meeting house in the Ifield neighbourhood of Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. Built in 1676 and used continuously since then by the Quaker community for worship, it is one of the oldest purpose-built Friends meeting houses in the world. It is classified by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building, a status given to buildings of "exceptional interest" and national importance. An adjoining 15th-century cottage is listed separately at Grade II*, and a mounting block in front of the buildings also has a separate listing at Grade II. Together, these structures represent three of the 100 listed buildings and structures in Crawley.
St Michael and All Angels Church is a church in Lowfield Heath, a depopulated former village in the Borough of Crawley, West Sussex, England. Built by the Gothic Revival architect William Burges in 1867 to serve the village, it declined in importance as Lowfield Heath was gradually appropriated for the expansion of London Gatwick Airport and of its related development. The last Anglican service was held there in 2004, but the church reopened in 2008 as a Seventh-day Adventist place of worship. The building has Grade II* listed status, which identifies it as a "particularly important building of more than special interest" and of national importance. It is also the only building remaining in the former village from the era before the airport existed: every other structure was demolished, and the church now stands among warehouses, depots and light industrial units.
Lowfield Heath is a former village within the boundaries of the Borough of Crawley, West Sussex, England. Situated on the main London to Brighton road approximately 27 miles (43 km) south of London and 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Crawley, it was gradually rendered uninhabitable by the expansion of London Gatwick Airport immediately to the north.
The Old Punch Bowl is a medieval timber-framed Wealden hall house on the High Street in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. Built in the early 15th century, it was used as a farmhouse by about 1600, passing through various owners and sometimes being used for other purposes. Since 1929 it has been in commercial use—firstly as a tearoom, then as a bank, and since 1994 as a public house. When built, it was one of at least five similar hall houses in the ancient parish of Crawley; it is now one of the oldest and best-preserved buildings in Crawley town centre.
Ifield Water Mill is a 19th-century weatherboarded watermill in the Ifield neighbourhood of Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. Built on the site of an earlier, smaller flour mill, which itself replaced an iron forge—one of many in the Crawley area—it fell into disuse in the 1930s. The local council, which acquired the land for housing development in the 1970s, leased the mill to local enthusiasts, who restored it to working order. The mill and an associated house are listed buildings, and there is also a cottage on the site.
Tinsley Green is an area in the Borough of Crawley, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Originally a hamlet in the parish of Worth, it was absorbed by the New Town of Crawley in the 1940s and became part of the Pound Hill neighbourhood. As well as houses, farms and woodland, it became the site of the 1930s aerodrome at Gatwick—now London Gatwick Airport. The airport's first railway station was briefly known as Tinsley Green. The game of marbles has a strong local tradition, and Tinsley Green's pub hosts the British and World Marbles Championship each year.
The Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony is a Roman Catholic church in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. The town's first permanent place of Roman Catholic worship was founded in 1861 next to a friary whose members, from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, had been invited to the area by a wealthy local family of Catholic converts. Crawley's transformation from a modest market town to a rapidly growing postwar New Town in the mid-20th century made a larger church necessary, and in the late 1950s the ecclesiastical architect Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel was commissioned to build a new church. The friary closed in 1980 and has been demolished, but the large brick church still stands in a commanding position facing the town centre. English Heritage has listed the building at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.
The George Hotel, also known as the George Inn and now marketed as the Ramada Crawley Gatwick, is a hotel and former coaching inn on the High Street in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. The George was one of the country's most famous and successful coaching inns, and the most important in Sussex, because of its location halfway between the capital city, London, and the fashionable seaside resort of Brighton. Cited as "Crawley's most celebrated building", it has Grade II* listed status.
Charlwood House is an early 17th-century timber-framed country house in Lowfield Heath, Crawley, West Sussex, England. It is a Grade II* listed building which is now used as a nursery school.
As of November 2010, there were 59 locally listed buildings in Crawley, a town and borough in the county of West Sussex in southeast England. One of these has subsequently been demolished. A locally listed building is defined as "a building, structure or feature that, whilst not statutorily listed by the Secretary of State, the Council considers to be an important part of Crawley's heritage due to its architectural, historic or archaeological significance". Crawley Borough Council administers the selection and deselection process, defines the criteria for inclusion, and produces and updates the local list.
Fernhill is a hamlet close to Gatwick Airport in West Sussex, England. Its fields and farmhouses formerly straddled the county boundary between Surrey and West Sussex, but since 1990 the whole area has been part of the county of West Sussex and the borough of Crawley. Fernhill is bounded on three sides by motorways and the airport. A fatal aeroplane crash occurred here in 1969.
Crawley, a postwar New Town and borough in the English county of West Sussex, has a wide range of public services funded by national government, West Sussex County Council, Crawley Borough Council and other public-sector bodies. Revenue to fund these services comes principally from Council Tax. Some of Crawley's utilities and infrastructure are provided by outside parties, such as utility companies and West Sussex County Council, rather than by the borough council. To help pay for improved infrastructure and service provision in proposed major residential developments such as Kilnwood Vale and the North East Sector, the borough council has stated that as part of the Crawley Local Plan it would require developers to pay a Community Infrastructure Levy.
1 2 "Drawing Built Development & Green Space"(PDF). Planning application CR/2006/0104/ARM (Land north of Apple Tree Farm, Langley Lane, Ifield, Crawley). Crawley Borough Council. 21 February 2006. Archived(PDF) from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2013. Erection of 176 residential units, open space, landscaping, parking, associated infrastructure and means of access via a roundabout junction with Ifield Avenue
↑ "Planning Application CR/2008/0607/FUL: Application Form"(PDF). Planning application CR/2008/0607/FUL (Broadfield House, Broadfield, Pease Pottage, Crawley). Crawley Borough Council. 3 October 2008. Archived(PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2013. Conversion of offices into 12 residential dwellings with internal and external alterations and improvements
1 2 "Planning Application CR/2006/0717/FUL". Planning application CR/2006/0717/FUL (Edgeworth Site, Buckingham Gate, Gatwick Airport, Crawley). Crawley Borough Council. 22 January 2007. Archived from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 5 February 2013. Erection of new hotel, including meeting & catering facilities, 218 bedrooms and 148 parking spaces
↑ "Neighbourhood Trail"(PDF). Crawley Borough Council "Neighbourhood Trail" leaflet. Crawley Borough Council. 8 July 2008. Archived(PDF) from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
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