Listed Building: GREEN FARMHOUSE (280680)

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Grade II
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Volume/Map/Item 280680
Date assigned 15 March 1988
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Description

STOWUPLAND THORNEY GREEN TM 06 SE 5/197 - Green Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse, c.1500-1530. 3-cell plan, originally with cross-entry. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered; the first floor is long-wall jettied towards the green with chamfered knees beneath the jetty. Concrete plaintiled roofs; a C16 chimney of red brick, the shaft partly rebuilt in C20. Early C19 small- pane sashes; at ground storey are two early C19 French windows, each pair having pointed arches formed by the upper row of glazing bars. C20 boarded entrance door with oblong fanlight, at lobby-entrance position. Good early C16 framing; heavy unchamfered floor joists, close-studding with blocked 4- centred-arched cross-entry doorway. A blocked window in the hall has one roll-and-cavetto mullion, and a blocked but complete window in the parlour has chamfered square mullions. Crownpost roof: chamfered square crownposts with 2-way braces; the open trusses have short thick 4-centred arch-braces. Set forward to left is a service cell with heavy plain framing of late C15 type; this may be a building demolished and re-erected here in C16/C17. Widely- spaced studding and tie-beams with massive arch braces. Both ranges had hipped roofs until given gables with clasped-purlins by c.1600. Listing NGR: TM0640160171

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Grid reference TM 06401 60171 (point)
Map sheet TM06SE

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May 22 2008 12:06PM

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