Scotch Green Farmhouse with integral shippon and stable, and attached granary

Scotch Green Farmhouse with integral shippon and stable, and attached granary

A farmhouse with integrated agricultural buildings, probably dating from the early 17th century or earlier, with significant alterations made in the late 17th and 19th centuries. The granary is 18th century. The structure comprises coursed sandstone rubble with some brick, enclosing cruck timber framing. The roof is corrugated iron with boxed eaves, covering thatch at the time of survey, and was re-thatched in 1988; there is a brick ridge chimney.

The building follows a rectangular plan of five bays, with the house occupying three bays and a baffle entry with a back door. It stands at one and a half storeys. The front elevation has an entrance at the left (or lower) end of the second bay, marked by a doorway with a slightly arched lintel and irregular jamb stones, fitted with a boarded door; a small dormer has been inserted in the eaves above this entrance. To the left is a small two-light stone mullion window (double-chamfered) which has been altered to a sliding sash and now lacks the mullion. To the right sits a similar small window originally of four lights, altered to two four-pane fixed windows separated by a remaining mullion. Further right is a two-light fire window similarly altered, followed by an inserted 16-pane sash and another small dormer. Double doors lead to the shippon, with a single door accessing the stable.

The left gable has been rebuilt in brick and rendered, containing a sashed window at first-floor level. The rear wall, which was rebuilt around 1900, has only a very small ventilating opening and a small window in the first bay, along with a plain doorway aligned with the chimney. At the right corner, attached at right angles, is a pigsty with a granary above, approached by external steps to a door in the front gable.

The interior reveals three full cruck trusses within the house, with the upper parts of a fourth cruck visible in the partition separating the shippon from the stable. The second bay of the house section has an inserted ceiling (the room above is ceiled at collar level), and an inglenook formed by the lower part of the second cruck truss, its tie beam serving as a bressummer to a smoke hood visible at first floor of the third bay. An inserted light wooden partition and staircase at the lower end creates an entrance passage from which two doorways open into the axially-divided service rooms of the first bay. The front of these rooms contains a stairtrap (now vacant, with the upper door blocked above by wattling). Both service rooms retain former wall plates and remains of some wall posts from the original timber-framed cladding. The third bay contains a narrow parlour at ground floor, accessed through the inglenook, and a loft at first floor reached by a ladder stair in the baffle entry through a trap made since removal of the rear of the smoke hood.

Within the shippon, the rear of the third cruck truss shows clay-and-straw daub on wattling. Fixed to the top of the fourth cruck truss is the top of a former smoke hood, whose function in this bay remains uncertain. The stable in the fifth bay contains two stalls with hay racks.

This building is graded II* as an unusually complete survival of an original cruck-framed farmhouse with its subsequent alterations largely undisturbed in the 20th century.