Roadside farm outbuildings still stand as 1890s witness behind earliest residential expansion on a Harper Lane cart track, long before asserting far busier Chesterfield Road addressing.
It filled definition of a croft as generally recognising a small farm housed enclosure often worked by a tenant. But its only offering apt reason for a neighbouring 2000 development as an introduction for featuring The Croft freehold premises.
Curving existing stone walling into an entrance featuring given name presented a nice touch. It suggests well appointed dwellings while offering individual plot numbering for three more houses between established Chesterfield Road properties. Looking back at this development found May 2001 sale of one twinned home priced £72,950. Larger property on right cost £125,000 in October.
Availability of Chesterfield Road numbering 79 upwards soon after incorporated these Huthwaite homes into NG17 2PZ address, so The Croft didn't actually retain recognition as an individualistic formal address for any newer owners when again shown in 2012.