No. 5, Elmdon Road

Number 5 on Elmdon Road is a house dating from around the 16th century, with remodels in the early 17th and 19th centuries. It features a timber-framed structure with roughcast walls and a clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. The house has a two-room plan consisting of two framed bays; the larger right-hand bay was likely originally an open hall, while the left bay is two storeys high with a framed partition between the two bays. Originally, there was a third bay at the right end. In the early 17th century, a floor was added to the hall, creating a chamber above, and the hall stack may have been constructed before this floor was inserted. The house was divided into two cottages in the 19th century, during which a brick wall was built across the left side of the hall, and a single-storey outshut was added to the right end.

The exterior is one storey with an attic and features an almost symmetrical two-window front facing northeast. It has small 19th-century two-light casements with leaded panes, and the attic windows are set in small gabled dormers. There are plank doors to the left and right of centre with a very small two-light window between them. The right-hand end has a single-storey outshut built around the gable-end stack. At the rear, there are small casements, a central doorway, and a large 20th-century conservatory to the left.

Inside, the right-hand room, which is the hall, has a chamfered axial beam with hollow step stops at one end, deeply-chamfered joists with similar stops, and a large fireplace with a roughly chamfered timber lintel. There is a doorway to the outshut on the right with a cranked head. The smaller left-hand room features a roughly chamfered axial beam and large joists, with a doorway in the timber-framed partition that has a cambered head. The timber frame is exposed in the attic, showing wall plates and wall framing with curved tension braces, jowled posts, curved braces to slightly cambered tie beams, queen posts, and wind braces; the apex of the roof is ceiled and not accessible.