Green Farm

Green Farm is a farmhouse, now divided into four dwellings, dating from the early 16th century with a main range constructed in the 17th century. A circa-1950 addition links the earlier ranges. The building’s design is complex, featuring a three-bay central range flanked by cross-wings to the left and right. The lower part of the main range has a painted plinth, while the upper part has irregular large timber framing with arched braces to the upper panels, supported by painted brick and rendered infill. The first floor of the main range is also rendered. The roof is thatched, with various brick stacks. The building is two storeys with a four-window range to the centre and a two-storey cross-wing to the left; a single-storey-and-attic cross-wing is situated to the right. Four 20th-century doors are set within recessed porches to the left of centre, the centre, and the right of centre. The fenestration consists primarily of 20th-century casement windows, with a three-light wood mullion window to the first floor of the gable end of the left-hand cross-wing. The gable ends of the cross-wings contain queen-post roof trusses. The interiors were not inspected. A study by C.R.J. Currie, "Smaller Domestic Architecture and Society in North Berkshire, c.1300-c.1650, with special reference to Steventon" (Ph.D Thesis, Oxford, 1976), provides further historical context.