20 AND 22, GREEN END

A house, or houses, dating to the 17th century, with alterations and extensions in the early 19th century. The building, which was later used as a coaching inn and is now offices, is constructed of rendered timber framing, with some rebuilt and extended sections in red brick at the rear. It has a plain tile and slate roof, with a hipped rear wing. The building has an irregular T-plan, with one bay removed to create a carriageway. It is two storeys and an attic, with a three-storey rear wing. The roof is stepped, with a coped parapet off-centre to the left, and a brick ridge stack also off-centre to the left. Dormers are present, including a pair of gabled dormers to the right with slate-hung sides, and a hipped dormer to the left with a two-light wooden casement and rendered sides. Lead-lined wooden box guttering is on the left. The front has four bays, with 19th-century first-floor windows containing two, three, and four-light wooden mullioned and transomed casements. There are two ground-floor windows with five lights, dating from the 20th century, featuring wooden mullions and transoms. An early 19th-century door is in the second bay from the left, featuring lower beaded flush panels, a four-part rectangular overlight, and a wooden doorcase with plain pilasters, a fluted frieze and a triangular pediment. A glazed door, likely inserted in the 20th century, is on the right. A wide two-storey carriageway is to the right, with straight angle braces. The left-hand wall underneath the carriageway is rendered, with a small first-floor two-light casement to the right. The attic retains beams and joists, including a reused 16th-century moulded joist. The rear of the building has 18th-century boxed glazing bar sashes. The early 19th-century rear wing has tooled dressed red sandstone eaves cornices. A 18th-century timber-framed (unpegged) two-storey lean-to is situated in the angle of the rear wing. Inside, there is an early 19th-century staircase with an open string, cut brackets, and stick balusters, and some 17th-century panelling. It is believed the building formerly served as a coaching inn. The carriageway, leading to the rear yard and formed by the removal of one bay, was probably created in the early 19th century.