Elmhirst Farmhouse and Cottage

Elmhirst Farmhouse and Cottage is a building that has been converted into two dwellings. It likely dates from the late 17th century, with an earlier core, and has undergone significant alterations. The structure is made of coursed rubble sandstone and features a 20th-century cement-tile roof. It is an elongated two-storey range with six windows on the first floor and a partial outshut at the rear. The building has large quoins, and the original house section on the left includes a part-glazed door in a quoined surround, flanked by three-light casements with quoined reveals. To the right, there is a two-light window with a recessed mullion. The converted outbuilding on the right shares the same roof and has a large sixteen-pane sash window, a 20th-century three-light mullioned window, and a 20th-century French window. On the first floor, all windows are two-light horizontally-sliding sashes set in quoined openings, with a small window above the door on the left. The building features shaped kneelers, chamfered gable copings, and two ridge stacks, each with a band. At the rear, there is an arched doorway on the left that may be of early date, along with some sash windows.

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

Elmhirst Farmhouse and Cottage is the ancestral home of the Elmhirst family.