20, The Green

The Green’s No.20 is a house dating back to the 16th century, with significant rebuilding in the mid to late 17th century and a refronting around 1758. Originally a two-room plan with a lobby entry, it incorporates rear service ranges. The construction is primarily of coursed limestone rubble, formerly rendered, with dressings, an ashlar central ridge stack, and an asbestos slate roof. The building is a long, parallel plan, remodelled in the 17th century to include a central lobby entry, a rear stair turret, and a rear wing. It has two storeys, a semi-basement, and an attic, with a three-window front. The facade is divided by a plinth, plat band, cornice, and parapet, featuring roll-moulded gable coping on the right-hand side. The central doorway has a raised surround and pediment leading to a four-panel door, with swept steps and wrought-iron railings. Raised flat surrounds are present on the paired central and left-hand windows, while the right-hand side has three-light stone-mullioned windows with 6/6-pane sashes on the ground floor and 9/6-pane sashes on the first floor, all featuring thick glazing bars. There are two 19th-century gabled casement dormers, and a covered basement window with a moulded surround.

The rear elevation includes a gabled mid to late 17th-century stair tower to the rear right, with a stone-mullioned and transomed window; a central early 19th-century wing with an 8/8-pane sash window on the first floor; and a gabled 17th-century rear left wing with a gable stack and a two-light first-floor mullion window over a doorway with French windows. A lean-to section attached to the White Hart includes an inserted Tuscan column alongside a three-light mullion window.

Internally, the semi-basement features a flagged floor and a rear 16th-century stone winder stair with a Tudor-arched doorway, the spandrels of which are filled with defaced shields. The ground floor has a rear dogleg 17th-century stair with original treads, later 19th-century turned balusters, and an uncut string. Late 16th-century moulded wall beams are visible in the north and south walls, and the ceilings feature 17th-century chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The central stack contains a wide 17th-century fireplace with a chamfered oak bressumer, and 17th-century fireplaces are also present on the first floor. The roof has been renewed. Historically, the house was part of a former 16th-century range connected to No.19 and the White Hart Hotel via the semi-basement, and was refronted around 1758.