Green Man Farmhouse

BLANKNEY LINCOLN ROAD, A15 TF 05 NW (east side) 4/2 Nos 1 and 2 Green Man Farmhouse 1.2.67 - II

Public house and attached clubhouse, then farmhouse, now two houses. c1700, 1741 and restored C19. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar and render dressings. Pantile roofs with ashlar coped gables. A single ridge, a single lateral and 2 gable brick stacks. Flush ashlar quoins. Two storey. Main block 4 bays, with an off centre doorway, with 6 panel part glazed door, and a Doric pilaster surround, supporting entablature and pediment. Flanked by single glazing bar sashes with 2 similar sashes beyond to the right. Above, 4 similar slightly smaller sashes. All these windows have rendered, rusticated wedge lintels. To the right a lower connecting wing, with a half glazed door, reached up 3 steps, and topped with a segment brick head. Above a small glazing bar sliding sash. To the right again, the former clubhouse, with chamfered ashlar plinth, and single bay gabled front, which has a large Venetian windows with a plain ashlar surround, and blocked side lights and fanlights. Above a single plain sash under a brick segment head, and a blocked opening above. The clubhouse was built c1741 for the members of the Lincoln Club, a group of local noblemen and gentlemen, probably at the expense of Thomas Chaplin of Blankney Hall. It once contained plaster roundels each with a bust of a club member. Source: Country Life, Sept 15th 1944, p473.

Listing NGR: TF0170359136