Description

CALNE

ST9970 THE GREEN
755-1/5/158 (South side)
19/05/50 No.20

GV II*

House. C16, partly rebuilt mid/late C17, refronted c1758.
Lobby entry 2-room plan, rear service ranges. Coursed
limestone rubble, formerly rendered, with dressings, ashlar
central ridge stack and asbestos slate roof. Long 2-room
parallel plan, remodelled in C17 with central lobby entry,
rear stair turret and rear wing.
2 storeys, semi-basement and attic; 3-window range. Divided by
a plinth, plat band, cornice and parapet, with roll-moulded
right-hand gable coping. Central doorway has raised surround
and pediment to a 4-panel door and swept steps up with
wrought-iron railings. Raised flat surrounds to paired central
and left-hand windows, and 3-light right-hand stone-mullioned
windows, to 6/6-pane ground-floor and 9/6-pane first-floor
sashes, all with thick glazing bars; two C19 gabled casement
dormers; covered right-hand basement window with moulded
surround.
Rear includes a gabled mid/late C17 stair tower to rear right
with stone-mullioned and transomed window; central early C19
wing with 8/8-pane first-floor sash, and a gabled C17 rear
left wing with gable stack and a 2-light first-floor mullion
window over a doorway with French windows; W lean-to against
the White Hart (qv) includes an inserted Tuscan column beside
a 3-light mullion window.
INTERIOR: details include a flagged semi-basement with rear
C16 stone winder stair with a Tudor-arched doorway with
defaced shields in the sunken spandrels facing the rear;
ground-floor has rear dogleg C17 stair with original treads
and later C19 turned balusters and uncut string; late C16
moulded wall beams in S and N wall; C17 chamfered ceiling
beams with stopped ends. Central stack has wide C17 fireplace
with chamfered oak bressumer, and C17 first-floor fireplaces.
Roof renewed.
HISTORICAL NOTE: part of a former C16 range connected to No.19
(qv) and the White Hart Hotel (qv) by the semi-basement,
refronted c1758.

Listing NGR: ST9994970718

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543894

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