17, Green End

House, now empty, circa 1700 with a circa 1900 addition. Located on the north side of Green End.

The main building is constructed in red brick with painted sandstone ashlar dressings and a plain tile roof. It is arranged in an L-plan with two storeys and an attic over a basement. The design features a high plinth with a moulded stone top, chamfered stone quoins, and a stone floor band with a moulded lower edge broken forward over keystones. The eaves are finished with a carved and moulded wooden cornice with scrolled modillions and egg and dart enrichment. The parapeted gable ends have chamfered stone copings and shaped kneelers, with integral brick end stacks. Two flat-roofed dormers sit within the attic, each with a boxed glazing bar sash, frieze, and moulded wooden cornice.

The front elevation contains three bays with early 19th-century glazing bar sashes (the outer sashes with 16 panes) set within 18th-century openings. The openings have moulded stone cills and gauged-brick heads with raised keystones. The central door is a fine specimen: a 6-panel raised and fielded design with a moulded architrave, a 3-part rectangular overlight, and carved scrolled brackets supporting a lead-covered semi-circular hood with a coved plaster soffit, frieze, and moulded cornice. Slate steps lead up to the doorway with an early 19th-century wrought-iron handrail to the right, wreathed to a circular foot newel and attached to a short section of spearhead railings returning to the wall. A basement window to the right has a chamfered pegged frame.

To the left is a projecting shop-front dating from circa 1900, featuring a chamfered-rusticated corner pier, frieze, moulded cornice, and blocking course with a globe end finial. It comprises a plate-glass window to the right and a half-glazed door to the left. A service wing at the rear is largely obscured and altered by 20th-century additions, though it retains at least one 18th-century window with a moulded cill.

The interior preserves an almost complete survival of circa 1700 fixtures and fittings. The elaborate dog-leg oak staircase rises to the attic with landings, an open string with carved scrolled brackets, moulded nosings, and fluted column-on-vase balusters (two per tread). The staircase has a ramped moulded handrail and panelled square newel posts with moulded caps and pendants. The half-landings are fitted with short sections of balustrade with dipped handrail. The attic flights feature a pulvinated frieze, a string with cut brackets, and unfluted balusters. A balustrade to the basement has panelled square newels.

The ground-floor right-hand room features raised and fielded dado panelling with saltire ornament to the rail. A fireplace (boarded over at the time of survey in November 1986) has a moulded architrave, a frieze with carved scrollwork and a central cornucopia, and a carved cornice, with a raised and fielded panel above. A buffet in the far wall contains a pair of glazed doors beneath a segmental arch with moulded architrave and raised keystone. The window retains boarded internal shutters and a moulded architrave. A depressed archway between the first-floor landing and corridor to the left has panelled piers with moulded capitals and a moulded architrave with fluted keystone. An altered doorcase at the end of the corridor displays an enriched cornice and triangular pediment. The entrance into the first-floor left-hand room has a 6-panelled door with a doorcase featuring a moulded architrave, frieze, dentil cornice, and broken triangular pediment. A blocked fireplace in the room has a bolection-moulded architrave, moulded frieze, and cornice with egg and dart enrichment.

The first-floor left-hand room contains a door with 4 raised and fielded panels and a doorcase with moulded architrave, frieze with shaped ends and central raised panel, and dentil cornice. The room was redecorated in the early 19th century with a picture rail and moulded cornice. A window has a moulded architrave. The attic retains a pair of 18th-century doors, each with two raised and fielded panels. A former kitchen occupies the rear.

Despite the circa 1900 shop-front addition, this remains a fine and complete example of an early 18th-century town house.