The Greens

The Greens comprises two dwellings, originally three houses, built in the 18th century; datestones indicate construction in 1732, 1766 and 1770. The houses are constructed of watershot coursed sandstone blocks with quoins, and have a slate roof with gable copings and kneelers, except at the right-hand end. There are two chimney stacks on the ridge and one at each gable. The original plan was a double depth three-bay arrangement, extended at each end to five bays, with a projecting porch at the centre.

The houses are two storeys high. The central porch is two storeys with quoins, gable coping and kneelers, a glazed door set within a pedimented architrave inscribed "1770", and a later 19th-century round-headed window with Ionic colonnettes and scrolled keystone on the first floor. Above this window is a square datestone with raised decoration and lettering “L”. A rainwater head to the right of the porch is lettered “I M”. To the left of the porch are two large, coupled windows on each floor. To the right is one window on each floor; all are top-hung casements with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds. A vertical joint between the fourth and fifth bays is marked by quoins to the fourth bay, with one sashed window with glazing bars and a plain stone surround on each floor of the fifth bay. The left return wall has a blocked round-headed attic window. The rear elevation features a four-light flush-mullion window at ground floor in the first bay, and in the side wall of an outshut is a moulded doorway with a slab canopy on beaked brackets. Above this doorway is a large carved datestone, partially damaged, with raised lettering “L?” surrounded by “I M,” a scrolled cartouche with scallops and a head, and set within a shouldered architrave.

The interior of No. 2 includes a stone staircase with moulded risers, stick balusters, and a curtail. There is also a moulded rectangular stone fireplace with a linenfold fan on the lintel, containing a heavily decorated iron grate with feathered and foliated back plate. No. 3 has one very large room on each floor. The lower room has a fielded panel door, the top panels pierced with hearts, and an exceptionally wide stone staircase leads to the upper room. This room was reportedly used for early Methodist meetings. The house was formerly owned by the Maden family.