23, Shephall Green

This is a house located at 23 Shephall Green, dating from the early to mid-17th century, with later extensions from the same century. It features a rendered timber frame and a pantile roof with gabled ends, along with rendered brick stacks at the axial and gable ends. The layout consists of a three-room plan with a lobby entrance. The original structure included a hall with a gable end stack on the north side and an unheated room on the south side. Later in the 17th century, a parlour with a chamber above and its own gable end stack was added to the north end. There is an outshut behind the parlour and another later outshut behind the hall and inner room.

The house is two storeys tall with an asymmetrical three-window west front. The first floor has small three-light casements, while the ground floor features larger four-light casements with glazing bars, except for the right side, which has been replaced by a 20th-century French casement. To the left of the centre is a panelled and glazed door, accompanied by a 20th-century open porch. There is a small outshut on the north end. At the rear, the main roof extends down as a catslide over the outshut on the right, with a lower-pitched lean-to outshut on the left.

Inside, the house showcases exposed wall framing and chamfered axial beams in both the hall and parlour, which feature cyma stops. The hall and parlour contain brick fireplaces with similarly chamfered and stopped timber lintels. The hall stack has crow-steps on the back, which are exposed in the parlour chamber, originally located outside. The wall plate and tie-beams are visible in the timber frame partitions, although the apex of the roof has been ceiled.