The Green Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Farmhouse.
The Green Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- western-gutter-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Green Farmhouse, Westbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 315 119
- Coordinates
- 52.70063, -3.01387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Green Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the 15th or 16th century, with alterations around 1600 and further changes in the 19th century, as well as a mid-to-late 20th century addition and remodelling. It is constructed with a timber frame in cruck style, and the walls have probably been rebuilt and rendered, likely over rubblestone. There is a red brick addition and a slate roof. The building has three framed bays running approximately east-west, with a 20th-century addition to the northwest. It is one storey with an attic.
On the south front, there is a large 20th-century flat-topped eaves dormer featuring two 2-light wooden casements on either side of a central 3-light wooden casement, and a gabled dormer to the north with a 2-light wooden casement. There is an off-centre brick ridge stack to the east and an external brick end stack for the 20th-century rear wing. The south elevation has four windows, including late 20th-century one-, two-, and three-light wooden casements, a half-glazed door in the left-hand gable end, and a boarded door at the rear.
Inside, the farmhouse contains at least two full cruck trusses and likely has a floor inserted around 1600, featuring ogee-stopped chamfered beams. The central ground-floor room has a large open fireplace from around 1600, which displays crude but vigorous symbolic caning that includes dragons, a lion with a man's head, various figures and beasts, and symbols such as a heart, a sword, latticework, a three-legged figure (representing the Isle of Man), and some indecipherable lettering. The house was probably originally an open hall before the first floor and stack were inserted around 1600.
Local climate
The Green Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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