Old Green Farmhouse

ST 68 NW 8/64

ALVESTON OLD GLOUCESTER ROAD (west side) Earthcott Green Old Green Farmhouse

G.V. II

Farmhouse. Originally C16 single-storey house, C17 rebuilding with later additions and alterations. Rubble, roughcast, stone tiled roof at front, double Roman tiled rear, brick gable stacks to right and left of centre. L-plan, former through passage. 2½ storeys, 2 storey wing set back to left and break in roof and wall line to right of main door, 1:3 windows, main block has all 3-light timber casements, 2 dormers, each with 2-light casements and terracotta finials, C20 door in 2nd bay from left in porch with hipped roof on timber piers; lower wing has ground and 1st floor C20 windows and door with porch with pitched roof on rubble pier, C20 single storey extension to left; joists projecting under eaves are shaped to right of main door, plain to left. Rear has all C20 windows including small central light to stair, possible former dairy wing at north end. Interior: ground floor former hall ceiling divided into 4 panels by deeply chamfered beams, lower wing has hollow chamfered and scroll-stopped joists to ground floor ceiling, also former through passage, heavy bressumer over fireplace and bread oven with early C19 iron door.

Listing NGR: ST6474985151