8, GREAT GREEN (See details for further address information)

Two houses, originally one larger dwelling, dating from the 16th century or earlier. The building is timber-framed with brick sills. The southern part (Nos. 8 and 9) has exposed timber framing on the first floor front, a roughcast southern gable, and painted brick casing to the ground floor. The northern part (the front of No. 11) is encased in 18th-century chequered red and black brick. The roof is covered in steep old red tiles.

The long, 1 1/2-storey range is set back from the road, facing east. A taller, two-storey jettied crosswing (No. 9) projects to the front and to the rear, where it has a half-hipped roof. A shorter gabled rear wing (No. 10) adjoins the northern side. The east front of the southern part features a gabled porch on the left-hand side, a rectangular bay window to No. 9 with a gabled dormer above, and a passage leading through to the rear, against the crosswing. This crosswing probably represents the screen passage of a former hall-house. There is one window on each floor of the wing, with the lower window offset to accommodate a door on the left-hand side. The exposed timber framing of the jettied first floor shows jowled posts, a tie-beam, collar, close-studding, curved brackets supporting the jetty, and clasped-purlins. The northern part has three box dormers at the eaves, four ground-floor windows with segmental arches, and two doors. There are 2- and 3-light flush casement windows throughout. Internal chimneys are present in Nos. 8 and 10, with a former external northern side chimney to No. 9 (the crosswing). A very large, projecting rear-wall chimney is located in the southern half of No. 11, rebuilt in the 18th century when the northern gable of the house was also rebuilt in brick, incorporating a gable parapet and an internal gable chimney.