Elmhirst Farmhouse and Cottage

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SE30SE 2/89

WORSBROUGH MOUNT VERNON ROAD (east side, off) Elmhirst Farmhouse and Cottage

(Formerly listed as Elmhirst Farmhouse, Worsbrough Dale)

11.11.66

II

Farmhouse now two dwellings. Probably late C17 with earlier core, much altered. Coursed rubble sandstone, C20 cement-tile roof. Elongated two-storey range, six windows to first floor, partial outshut to rear. Large quoins. Original house-part on left has part-glazed door in quoined surround flanked by three-light casements with quoined reveals, two-light window on right has recessed mullion. Converted outbuilding under same roof on right has large sixteen-pane sash, C20 three-light mullioned window and C20 French window. First floor: all two-light horizontally-sliding sashes in quoined openings, small window over door on left. Shaped kneelers, chamfered gable copings, two ridge stacks each with band. Rear: arched doorway on left possibly of early date, some sash windows.

Interior: cruck truss exposed in partition wall between the two dwellings has wall spurs set below tie beam which is morticed for infill, collar beneath cruck ends clasping remains of diagonally-set ridge now much lower than present roofline. The truss and long-house form of the building suggest a late medieval date for the original structure.

Ancestral home of the Elmhirst family.

Listing NGR: SE3513604653