Green Man House

Green Man House is a 17th century or earlier central chimney house with a cellar, extended and raised around 1734 to form a higher, two-storey, L-shaped plan. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with old red tiled roofs, gabled in the older section and hipped in the 18th century section, concealed behind a timber parapet. A central chimney rises as a gable stack to the 18th century part, and another central chimney is located between the two rooms in the western wing.

The main facade faces north, maintaining a scale by omitting windows in the lower, eastern portion, which appears as an adjunct to the taller, symmetrical 18th century section. The front is rough plastered, with a recessed centre, plinth, frieze, and cornice, topped by a low parapet acting as a blocking course, divided into small vertical panels. There is a three-window front; the central flush box sash window has a moulded architrave and 6/6 panes over the door. Flanking this are two-storey canted bay windows with 8/8 panes and 6/6 paned side lights. The six-panel front door has raised and fielded panels to the upper four, a semicircular fanlight divided into three radial bars extending into a triangular open pediment with a dentilled cornice. Plain pilasters with moulded bases and caps support consoles beneath the entablature.

The west-facing garden front features a three-centre arched ground-floor window in the centre, and a French window. The south end of the west wing has a single bay window. The rear wall displays leaded casements where the older and newer parts overlap, creating three low storeys. The interiors of the older part have low ceilings, extending into the eastern part of the 18th-century frontage, so that the eastern bay window rises above ceiling level, and the old timber frame is exposed. A chamfered axial beam with a stop and a cross beam with axial joists are present in the dining room and kitchen respectively.

The front door opens into a stair hall, containing a good 18th century cut string staircase with a moulded handrail and stick balusters, and a dentilled cornice to the upper part. The northwest room features a moulded dado and shutters, a six-panel door, and a wooden fire surround with marble slips, a narrow moulded architrave with scrolls to the dado, a panelled frieze with a central wreath and flanking swags, with small dancing figures at each end. A bracketed cornice sits above the shelf, though the room cornice has been renewed. The southwest room has early 19th-century vertical sliding shutters and French doors in a reeded architrave and simple wooden fire surround with marble slips, a plain frieze and coved bedmould to the shelf.

Attached on the southeast are 19th century outbuildings, weatherboarded, with tiled lower roofs and slated high roofs. These are of one and two storeys. The house represents two main periods of construction, showing continuous adaptation in its domestic arrangements.