Thorpe Green House

Thorpe Green House is a house that dates from the late 16th century and has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a mix of construction styles, including partly timber framed and plastered sections, as well as areas made of red brick in Flemish bond. The roof is covered with handmade red clay tiles and slate.

The house consists of three parallel ranges aligned northeast-southwest, facing southeast. The first range is a late 16th-century timber-framed structure with three bays and a central stack, likely originally designed with a lobby-entrance plan and topped with a tiled roof. The second range, added in the early 19th century, serves as the brick entrance and has an internal stack at each end, with a slate roof. The third range is a 19th-century brick service area at the rear, also roofed with slate. There is a small two-storey extension from the 19th century on the northeast side, which is plastered and has a slate roof. Additionally, there are two small single-storey extensions from the 20th century on the northwest side, both with slate roofs.

The house is two storeys high and features a three-window range of early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights, flat brick arches, and some crown glass. The central door has been altered to a sash window in the 20th century. The roof has a shallow pitch with long overhanging eaves. There is a six-panel door with a flat canopy located on the left return. The building includes jowled posts, curved braces that are trenched outside close studding, and chamfered transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops. The joists are plastered to the soffits, and the wallplates feature edge-halved and bridled scarfs. The roof was not examined, but the ceiling of the upper rooms appears to be an 18th-century addition.