Upper Green

Upper Green is a substantial Renaissance farmhouse constructed of rubble stone. The rendered south front features a hipped slate roof with a tile ridge, with projecting end stacks—the left stack is stone while the right is rendered. The building rises three storeys with a regular front elevation punctuated by horned sash windows with shallow stone sills. The second floor contains four small two-pane sashes with segmental arched window heads, while the first floor has four larger sashes with flat heads. A gabled single-storey entrance porch projects from the ground floor, slightly off-centre to the right. The porch has a segmental arched stone lintel incised with lines simulating voussoirs, and the inner porch is fitted with stone benches on each side. The entrance door is a six-panel example with the upper four panels fielded and the bottom two flush.

The east elevation features a centre stack. The second floor has a small two-pane window on the left, and the ground floor has a small lean-to shed with a boarded door on the right. The west elevation similarly has a lean-to on the ground floor at the left and a two-pane window on the top floor at the right. Projecting at right angles from the back of the house is a one-and-a-half storey L-shaped block housing the kitchen and dairy—the original range. Its east elevation displays (from left to right) an entrance doorway to the cross passage with a twentieth-century boarded door, a projecting bread oven with a tile roof and low stone stack, and a twentieth-century boarded door with a small upper window leading to the former dairy. The north elevation features a straight flight of stone steps rising to a boarded upper doorway with a gabled canopy, and a 3+3+3 pane window with chamfered mullions on the ground floor to the right. The west elevation shows the end gable of the dairy on the left, a first-floor square window with a centre mullion, iron stanchions and boarded inner shutters, a square opening with boarded shutter on the side wall, a 3+3 pane casement with shallow timber lintel on the first floor, and a twentieth-century boarded door on the ground floor.

Internally, the front entrance of the Renaissance house opens into a small staircase lobby with principal ground-floor rooms to left and right. The ground-floor room on the right has a moulded ceiling cornice and two eighteenth-century round-arched wall cupboards, each with a fluted keyblock and fluted pilasters. The right-hand cupboard features doors with fielded panels and shaped shelf fronts. The ground-floor room on the left is dominated by a massive square-section ceiling beam and includes an eared wooden fireplace surrounded by a moulded shelf with a nineteenth-century cast iron range. A smaller third room opens off this space, fitted with a moulded ceiling cornice, dado, and round-arched cupboard recess with keyblock and shaped shelves. The ground-floor rooms have four-panel doors with eighteenth-century L-hinges. A fine eighteenth-century oak quarter-turn staircase with a landing rises through two floors, featuring a closed string, square newel post, plain balusters and a moulded rail. The first-floor bedroom is accessed by a six-panel door with fielded panels. The roof structure comprises collar trusses, three centre bays plus hips, and two tiers of purlins.

The rear service wing is accessed through a cross passage, also linked to the ground floor of the main house. The kitchen contains an inserted floor with one chamfered and one square-section ceiling beam and exposed joists. A plank and batten door leads to the former dairy, which has a stone flagged floor. The attic loft contains significant evidence of a former medieval cruck house comprising four bays. Remnants of three cruck trusses survive, with each chamfered cruck blade having been sawn off above the tie beam. The tie beam itself has been cut through, probably in the early seventeenth century, to create a habitable attic. The inserted seventeenth-century roof features open trusses with the feet of the principals morticed into the projecting spurs of the tie beams.