Description

SJ 5441
8/79

WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P.
GREEN END (south side)

Nos. 20 and 22

GV
II

House or houses, latterly coaching inn, now offices. C17, remodelled and
enlarged in the early C19. Rendered timber frame, partly rebuilt and
extended in red brick at rear. Plain tile and slate roof, hipped to rear
wing. Irregular T-plan. 4 framed bays, with right-hand bay removed to
form carriageway. 2 storeys and attic with 3-storey rear wing. Stepped
roof, divided by coped parapet off-centre to left. Brick ridge stack off-
centre to left. Pair of gabled dormers off-centre to right with slate-hung
sides and hipped dormer off-centre to left with 2-light wooden casement and
rendered sides. Lead-lined wooden box guttering to left. 4 bays; C19
first-floor 2-, 3- and 4-light C19 wooden mullioned and transomed casements
and 2 ground-floor 5-light C20 wooden mullioned and transomed windows.
Early C19 door in second bay from left (lower beaded flush panels) with 4-
part rectangular overlight and wooden doorcase consisting of plain pilasters,
fluted frieze and triangular pediment. Probably inserted C20 glazed
door to right. Wide 2-storey carriageway to right with straight angle
braces. Left-hand wall underneath carriageway is rendered, and has small
first-floor 2-light casement to right. Beams and joists to attic,
including one reused C16 moulded joist. Rear: C18 boxed glazing bar
sashes. Early C19 rear wing with tooled dressed red sandstone eaves
cornice. C18 timber framed (unpegged) 2-storey lean-to in angle of rear
wing. Interior: early C19 staircase with open string, cut brackets and
stick balusters. Some C17 panelling. This range is said formerly to have
been a coaching inn. The carriageway to the rear yard, formed by the removal
of one bay, was probably created in the early C19.

Listing NGR: SJ5431241528

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26307600

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