Reading Green Farmhouse

Reading Green Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the late 16th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a thatched roof. The building has one and a half storeys with a small attic and follows a two-cell, lobby entrance layout. There are two windows featuring 19th-century four-light casements and three gabled dormers. A 20th-century plastered gabled porch with a four-panel door has been added to the entrance.

Internally, there is an internal stack, although the exterior portion of the shaft has been rebuilt. The timber frame consists of just three bays, with some of the studding exposed on the inside. The main room on the ground floor features a long axial bridging beam with a barred stop-chamfer and plain joists. Above, the chamber has a substantially-framed cross-partition made from re-used timbers, one of which shows evidence of diamond mullions. The roof structure includes clasped purlins and two-way wind bracing, and there is an original newel stair present.