Green Farmhouse

WINSTON BAKERS LANE, WINSTON TM 16 SE GREEN 1/135 Green Farmhouse

• II

Former farmhouse, late C16 and c.1600. 3-cell plan with two original rear wings. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roof; an axial chimney of red brick; the sawtooth shaft rebuilt c.1900; a gable chimney to right. Mid C19 sashes with large panes; and in the parlour and hall cells with sidelights. Mid C19 entrance door with 4 panels, the upper panels glazed; a dentilled and modillioned pediment above. Some good original internal features: very closely-spaced windbraced close-studding, the original brick-nogging being visible at attic level. High quality butt purlin roof with, unusually, 3 tiers of purlins (the uppermost tier windbraced). In a rear wing is a newel staircase with turned balusters at the head; a dog-gate with 2 tiers of closely-spaced turned balusters at 1st storey is probably from this stair. Above the hall are heavy joists with unusual chamfer and cavetto- mouldings combined. Large open fireplace in the hall. Small blocked windows with roll and cavetto mullions, and larger C17 windows also blocked, with transomes. Much repositioned C17 wainsctotting and several moulded plank doors.

Listing NGR: TM1675161284