Vinney Green Farmhouse

Vinney Green Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th and early 18th centuries, with later alterations in the late 18th or early 19th century. The pantiles are said to date from 1786. The farmhouse is built of roughcast rubble with rendered brick stacks and a pantile roof.

The original plan was a cross-passage with two rooms, extended to the east by a further bay beyond a substantial chimney breast with a visible straight joint on the front. A later dairy wing was added to the rear, to the right. A full-depth lean-to extension, likely from the 19th century, fills the internal angle of the wing on the south side.

The two-storey front has four windows at the upper floor and three below. A six-panelled door, set within solid cheeks and sheltered by a hipped hood with double-Roman tiles, is in the third bay. Gable stacks are present, and another stack sits between bays one and two. The right return has a plain gable with a single-light, eight-pane casement to the ground floor, continuing into the wing. The gable end is plain, with a stack, and extends to the lean-to, including a door and casement. The return face of the lean-to also features small windows. The main rear wall has three widely spaced casements at eaves level, above a pair of 20th-century French doors, a 20th-century stable-type door under a flat stone hood on stone brackets, and a three-light casement. The end gable is plain.

Inside, the flagged cross-passage is open to the centre room, featuring a rebuilt fireplace with broad and deep recesses, and two transverse chamfered beams with run-out stops. A door to the right of the fireplace leads to a later kitchen with a rear entrance. This room has a range of painted softwood cupboards backing the chimney breast with fielded-panel doors on H-hinges. The parlour to the right of the passage has a wide fireplace with a deep bressumer to chamfers and run-out stops, and a central transverse beam with ovolo mouldings to the stops. A 19th-century straight staircase leads out from this room to the rear. The wing has a stone-flagged floor and features a transverse ovolo-moulded beam, and a fireplace dating from the 1930s; it is said to have been used as a dairy. The thick wall between the wing and original range contains a wide, deep recess, possibly a former window opening. The staircase has a landing balustrade with slender stick balusters with moulded corners. At the upper floor there is a large rough beam in the room above the dairy, with boxed beams elsewhere. Mainly early plank and battened doors remain, along with some original latches. The roof space was not inspected. Apart from the loss of the original staircase, the property remains substantially as originally built. It is situated at the edge of the Bristol conurbation, bordering open countryside, and is accompanied by a small barn.