Batlers Green House

House. Built around 1500, with alterations and extensions in approximately 1560, the late 17th century, and the early 18th century. Further additions and alterations occurred in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The core of the house is timber-framed and largely clad in red brick, with pargetting. The roofs are tiled. The original design included a 2-bay open hall, which was partially floored over and extended in the 16th century with a parlour and a service cross wing, the latter being rebuilt in the 18th century to create a new front. The main house is two storeys and an attic, with 7 bays and a 2-bay late 18th-century addition to the right. The original entrance was central and features a 6-panel door with a rectangular top light, a moulded architrave, and consoles supporting a hood. It has glazing bar sashes, some with thick bars, some with thin bars, a mix of original and later glass, and flush frames with timber sills and flat arched heads. The exterior includes a plinth and plat bands, with the band at the cornice featuring a moulded lower course. It has a coped parapet and 4 hipped dormers. The ridge is taller to the right, and the right gable end has a parapet and an external stack. The left return displays two hall bays at the centre. The left bay has a jettied first floor with exposed studding, a cambered tie beam, and ogee tension braces. A 3-light leaded pane casement features ovolo-moulded timber mullions. The gable has a pierced guilloche pattern bargeboard. A brick oriel with a mullion and transom leaded pane casement is on the ground floor, alongside a 4-light casement in the right hall bay with a segmental relieving arch and a cross window above. A rebuilt principal stack is situated at the left end of the hall, diagonally set. A service wing projects forward to the right, with two ground floor sashes. The first floor is pargetted, with a bargeboarded gable and a 2-light casement. The rainwater head at the junction with the 18th-century front bears the inscription "Laus Deo". A parlour wing extends to the left, featuring pargetted panels and 2- and 4-light casements; the eaves casement nearest the hall is original. The gable is decoratively bargeboarded. Further to the left is a late 17th-century granary, one storey and attic in height, with pargetting, 4-light casements, 1 hipped dormer, and a hip roof to the left. To the rear are 2-storey 18th and 19th-century brick additions with sashes and casements, dentilled eaves, and hipped and gabled roofs. 19th-century stacks and tile hanging adorn the rear of the 19th-century front extension. The hall interior has moulded ceiling beams, arched braces from jowled posts, oak panelling, a moulded segmental brick arch over the fireplace, and a secondary stair in the granary which reuses timber braces as balusters. Exposed timbers are present on the first floor, alongside 18th-century panelling, stairs and doors.