Green Stead

THORPE-LE-SOKEN TM 1722 8/118

HIGH STREET (South west side)

Green Stead

GV II

House. Circa early C18; brick facade probably C19. Rendered timber frame with painted Flemish bond brick front. Steeply-pitched plain tile roof with gabled ends and spracketed eaves. Red brick gable end stacks with brick tumbling to set-offs. 2-room plan with central entrance passage, the left room is the parlour and the right hand room the kitchen. The outshut behind the kitchen may be original, but the rear left outshut is C19. 2-storeys and attic. Symmetrical 2-window front; large window openings with segmental brick arches and C19 6-pane sashes. Central doorway with moulded eaved architrave, its pediment or canopy missing and glazed and panelled door. Two C20 flat roof dormers. Outshuts at rear, left rendered, right brick. Interior: Most of the early C18 2-panel doors remain intact. Left hand room has brick fireplace with curved back and chamfered timber lintel. Right hand room has large brick fireplace, partly dismantled and lintel missing. The two ground floor and two first floor rooms have axial ceiling beams, those on right chamfered, the first floor with cyma steps; those on left with bowtel mouldings. Original winder staircase at rear right end of passage.

Listing NGR: TM1775722449