The Croft is a large detached house on

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, Barnet. It has been

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on the

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since November 1974. The house was designed by the English architect

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as his personal residence. It was subsequently profiled in an 1899 issue of ''

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''. The formal gardens of The Croft originally contained a sculpture of

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Collcutt also built another Grade II listed house on Totteridge Green, Fairspeir, and The Lynch House on Totteridge Common.

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, writing in the 1998 ''London: North'' edition of the

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, described The Croft as 'very picturesque' and 'a more relaxed version' of Richard Norman Shaw's 'Old English style'. The interior was described as having 'pretty plasterwork' and tiles by

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. The 1977 edition of the Pevsner guides had described the Croft's design as "three ranges and a court, roughcast, with Tudor windows" likening it to the domestic architecture of

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Images of The Croft from an 1898 issue of ''The Building News''
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