Elmfield House

Elmfield House is an early 19th-century house, possibly designed by the local architect William Lindley, which is now used as a community centre. It is constructed of stucco with painted ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The main front has three bays, and the house is two stories high. The central bay features an enclosed, pilastered porch and a double-leaf door with fielded panels and an overlight with margin glazing, all set within an eared architrave. Angle pilasters support an entablature with a moulded cornice and low parapets. Two-story bow windows flank the central bay, each with full-height Venetian-style bow windows. The ground floor has cornices supported on large scrolled consoles, while the first floor has a sill band and a full-height unequal 15-pane sash set in a blind semi-circular recess, flanked by tripartite bow windows with similar central sashes and 5-pane sashes. The first floor windows have ironwork balconies. The roof is hipped with rendered ridge stacks. A later addition to the south-west corner includes a pedimented pilastered doorcase, now containing a window, and a semi-circular headed doorcase with a panelled door and traceried fanlight. The garden front has four bays and giant pilasters flanking the outer bays. It features full-height 15-pane sashes on the ground floor, with two set in architraves and segmental pediments, and two with cornices. Similar sashes are on the first floor, with timber valances and simple segmental ironwork balconies. The interior incorporates an original cantilevered stone staircase with a wreathed handrail. The entrance hall has moulded cornices, black and white marble paving, and a semi-circular headed stair window. Reeded cornices and original panelled doors are found throughout.