2 The Green and Thorne Barton

This is a substantial early 17th-century house, located on The Green in Woodbury and Thorne Barton on Mirey Lane. The house is constructed of plastered cob on stone footings, with a gabled-end pantiled roof. It likely originally had a three-room, baffle entry plan, comprising a hall, an inner room, a storage extension to the right, and a long service wing to the left. A rear wing has also been added. An axial stack originally had a stair newel at the rear, while a left-hand end stack has a later brick shaft.

The front elevation has a seven-window range, with six windows on the ground floor, all featuring late 20th-century casements. There are three doorways, two of which have porches. The rear of the house has not been fully examined.

Inside, the service wing was not inspected. The hall features a deeply chamfered cross ceiling beam with large hollow step stops. A partly visible fireplace lintel is also deeply chamfered. The hall chamber has a single ribbed plaster ceiling with two lozenges, each featuring a small pendant, and roses at the centre. Sprays in the form of foliated finials are present, with two sprays depicting a bear's (or wolf's) head and a man's head. The jointed cruck edges are decorated with paterae. The inner room chamber has a plaster ceiling with a rose at the centre and four radiating ribs with formalised teasle terminals. Both ceilings have cornices with ovolo moulding and two fillets.

The roof is of a jointed cruck construction; inspection was limited to the higher end side of the hall truss, which has conventional apex carpentry, morticed and pegged and is clean on this side.

Recent discovery has revealed writing on the plaster of the inner room chamber, including an indecipherable name and the date February (?) 1633, which may refer to the date the ceilings were created.