Elm House

Elm House is a house dating from around 1630, with a later 18th-century facade. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, with paler bricks in a Flemish bond to the front wall. The front range has a parapetted roof of Collyweston slates, while the rear range is roofed with Welsh slates. The roof has tumbled gable end parapets and projecting end stacks, with one stack to the north corbelled out. A ridge and end stack are also present on the rear range. The house is arranged in a T-plan, with the front range being two storeys and attics, featuring three dormers.

The front facade has recessed panels and stone coping, framed by pilaster strips and bands above the first floor and between storeys. The central bay projects slightly. Stone sills are present, and the facade displays a range of five recessed hung sashes, each with twelve panes, beneath gauged, red brick arches. Three stone steps, in a segmental plan, lead to a central doorway, which has a flat hood supported by moulded wood brackets. The doorway itself contains a six-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight.

A rubbed brick band is visible between the storeys on the 1630 part of the front range. The rear range was originally two storeys high but had an attic storey added when the roof was raised in the late 18th century. A band is present at the former eaves height and between storeys. Three former window openings are blocked at the first floor, featuring rusticated brick surrounds. Segmental arches are visible to two late 18th-century flush frame hung sashes in open boxing. A doorway on the rear wall, opposite the stack, provides a lobby entry.

A three-light casement with ovolo mullions, likely reused, is located on the north wall of the rear range at ground floor level.

The interior features a late 18th-century main staircase with six flights and two landings, constructed as an open-string with three turned balusters to each tread, a moulded and raked handrail, a curtail, and scroll tread ends. A panelled dado is present on the staircase. One ground floor room is panelled in two heights, with a moulded dado and a modillion cornice. The fireplace surround is shouldered, with a carved pulvinated frieze, dentils to the mantel cornice, and a frieze of Vitruvian scroll ornament. Above the mantel is a shouldered and ramped overmantle with drops of fruit and foliage. Doorways have shouldered architraves. Fragments of 1630 panelling, reset, are visible in cupboards between the front range and kitchen.