Butts Green Farmhouse (EHER 35677)

17th century timber-framed house.

NRHE data transfer: Butts Green Farmhouse. 17th century timber-framed and plastered house. Grade II. <1> Butts Green Farm, house and barn, on the north side of the road, nearly 1 3/4 miles north-west of the church. The House is of two storeys with attics. At the north end is a modern extension, and the west front, with part of the south end, is faced with modern brick. The original chimney-stack has pilasters set diagonally on a rectangular base with a moulded capping. Inside the building, on the ground floor, are two original doors of moulded battens, and a cupboard of around 1700. On the first floor are four original doors of moulded battens; one room has an original stone fireplace with moulded jambs, four-centred head, and an entablature with a carved arabesque frieze; the small room at the north end retains the carved frieze, but there is no trace of the fireplace-opening below it. The original staircase has square newels, moulded handrails and strings, and shaped and pierced pilaster balusters. <2> See also: <3>