Possible Clues:

• Good chap meets green Labour man
• Pale-yellow — through which one can drink
• Like a house destroyed by this puzzle's subject
• Unwise homebuilder's material, so the story goes
• How the growths go up to keep the grain up (5)
• Little Pig building material
• One taken short lumbers you — sucker!
• Bovine bedding
• Crude mattress filler
• Manger bedding