Elmtree Farmhouse

Elmtree Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1750 for John and Mary Harrison, with a later 18th-century south front and early 20th-century alterations, including renovations in 1986. The building is constructed of brick in Flemish bond on the south front and is colour-washed, topped with a pantile roof. It has an L-shaped plan, featuring an earlier two-room north wing with a central entrance and a two-room south front with a central entrance hall. The farmhouse is two storeys high with an attic and has three symmetrical bays.

The south front features a recessed 20th-century half-glazed door with a plain overlight, set beneath a rubbed-brick flat arch with a raised ashlar keystone. To the right, there is a 19th- to 20th-century timber canted ground-floor bay window, and to the left, a 20th-century small-pane glazed door beneath a stucco flat arch. On the first floor, there are 12-pane sash windows, with the central window beneath a rubbed-brick keyed flat arch and wider sashes on either side beneath stucco flat arches. The eaves are stepped, and there are end stacks.

The right return, which was the former east front, is also two storeys high with three symmetrical bays. It has a central 12-pane sliding sash window in an original segmental-headed doorway, flanked by three-light casements with glazing bars beneath segmental arches. The first floor features a central two-light segmental-headed casement flanked by similar three-light windows. The right gable has tumbled-in brickwork, and there are axial and end stacks.

Inside, the south range has an open well staircase with a ramped corniced handrail and a 20th-century infilled balustrade. The ground-floor rooms have moulded cornices, and the original chimney-piece in the left room features reeded pilasters, fluted dosserets, and a reeded pulvinated frieze. This chimney-piece is flanked by a half-domed alcove on the left with fluted pilasters and a keyed fluted archivolt, and a round-headed alcove on the right with an archivolt, both set in fielded-panel surrounds.