The Elms

The Elms is a former house, later a savings bank, and now municipal offices, built in the mid-18th century. It features Flemish-bond brick with an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings, while the returns and rear are made of rubble with brick dressings. The building has a concrete tile roof with brick chimneys and stands three storeys high with four windows. There are set back two-storey, one-window extensions on each side. The entrance has a six-panel door with a patterned overlight in the third bay, framed by a painted Ionic porch with fluted front columns and enriched rear pilasters. Above the door is a rinceau frieze. The first floor has twelve-pane sash windows with flat brick arches and painted sills, while similar arches are found over long twelve-pane windows inserted to the left of the door in narrow openings, with brick courses continuing the lintels. The second floor features four-pane sash windows with painted sills, and the lintels are obscured by the eaves gutter board. The hipped roof has chimneys at the right end and left rear. The left extension includes vehicle doors beneath a high brick arch with a six-pane light above, while the right extension has a small first-floor window and a pent roof. At the rear, there are two Venetian windows on the ground floor.