Elm Farmhouse

Elm Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the late 16th century and clad in mid 19th century brick. It features Flemish band brickwork over a timber frame and has a gabled old tile roof with a brick ridge stack. The building has a two-unit lobby-entry plan and stands two storeys tall, with a symmetrical two-window range. There are segmental brick arches over a mid 19th century four-panelled door that is accompanied by a trellised wrought-iron porch, as well as over two-light casements with glazing bars. At the rear right, there is a late 19th century two-storey lean-to extension.

Inside, the farmhouse has an unusually well-preserved late 16th century timber frame, with lath or wattle and daub infill between vertical studding, internal wall bracing, and three bays of framing. A central brick stack is flanked by jowled storey posts with curved bracing leading to queen-post and strut trusses, which have chamfered clasped purlins, straight wind bracing, and pegged common rafters. There are two timber-framed staircases, likely dating from the 19th century. Each of the two ground-floor rooms features ogee-stopped ovolo-moulded beams, chamfered bressummers, and squared stone jambs for open fireplaces, one of which retains a spice cupboard. A blocked four-light wood-mullioned ovolo-moulded window is present in the left room. The first floor retains many original floorboards, stop-chamfered beams, and wall plates. The left room has a late 16th century ribbed plank door beside a hooded fireplace with a chamfered bressummer, and two three-light wood-mullioned ovolo-moulded windows. The right room contains a hooded fireplace with a chamfered bressummer and a 19th century panelled door set in a 16th century chamfered architrave. The late 19th century rear extension includes a stand pump, fireplace, and washing copper.