2, The Green

House, 17th and 18th century, with roof rebuilt in 1963 and house refurbished in 1966.

The building is constructed of coursed ironstone with concrete tile roofs replacing the original Stonesfield slate. It forms part of a row of attached cottages, comprising three unequal bays that may have evolved from a two-cell, end chimney house with the addition of a formerly external northern passage. A two-and-a-half-storey cross wing projects from the rear of the central bay and contains a barrel-vaulted cellar, while a single-storey outshut with lean-to roof extends from the rear of the southernmost bay. The northern gable wall is offset diagonally from the front building line, and the transverse wall containing the main stack is unusually thick for an internal wall. Indents in the gable walls may suggest the former roof line, which could have been raised.

The exterior presents two storeys and attics in three bays. The entrance in the northern bay has a simple doorframe cut into the stonework with a later 20th-century door. Windows are modern uPVC in enlarged openings, though remains of quarter-moulded and chamfered stone architraves and drip moulds survive, particularly on the ground floor. Two attic dormers contain two-light casements. Brick stacks stand at each gable and over the main fireplace to the left of the central bay.

The rear elevation shows the main house wall and cross-wing returns built of randomly laid ironstone, while the gable wall of the cross wing is coursed with dressed stone quoins. The ground floor south-east corner is chamfered, with a blocked opening on the first floor of the south return wall. Single windows at each floor, including the attic, are modern replacements with the first floor window enlarged.

Internally, a wide entrance passage leads to the main living space, which features a large inglenook fireplace with stone piers marked with diagonal chisel marks. The bressumer and spine beam are chamfered with run-out stops, and joists are exposed with lamb's tongue stops. The floor comprises large stone flags. To the south lies the parlour with a chamfered doorframe. Rear cornices and the spine beam display cyma mouldings. Set into the rear wall and cutting through the cornice is a round-arched shell-shaped alcove of early 18th-century character, with three shaped shelves and an arch embellished with carved foliate trail featuring pears, plums and an open rose. A pair of raised and fielded cupboard doors beneath the alcove are replacements but reuse butterfly hinges.

A chamfered door frame in the rear of the main living room provides access to stone steps descending to a cellar with stone barrel vault and a two-light stone chamfered mullion window in the rear wall.

On the first floor, the spine beam, where visible, is of slender scantling with lamb's tongue stops. The first floor room of the cross wing has a chamfered doorframe and slender transverse beam, with a canted south-east angle. Adjacent is a small cupboard with butterfly hinges, previously referred to as a wig cupboard.

The house appears to have originated as one of a row of later 17th-century cottages, enlarged in the 18th century. It stands second in a row of attached houses aligned roughly north-south on the east side of The Green, which comprises a small group of historic buildings set away from the village centre rather than at its core. The village possesses a complex plan, with these houses arranged on plots with long frontage onto the Green rather than following the tighter system of traditional urban burgage plots. Documents dated 1790 relating to Daniel Salmon, Parish Overseer for the Poor, were discovered in the first floor rear room during refurbishment, though his connection to the house remains unknown.

Photographs and surveys from the late 1960s and 1974 document the exterior before window enlargement, showing the careful grading of window proportions in the rear gable wall, suggesting it was designed to be seen. Internal fittings recorded at that time included two-panel raised and fielded doors, a second small alcove on the upper floor, and a fireplace in the south-east corner of the first floor rear room, though no associated stack now remains.