Elm Farmhouse

FOLKSWORTH AND WASHINGLEY ELM ROAD TL 1489 (South West Side) 22/90 Elm Farmhouse 3.8.88 II Farmhouse. Early C17 with late C17 addition and C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered and plastered brick. Slated roofs. Two storeys and attics; L-plan with two storey porch to main range facing north-east. Deep brick plinth and buttressed walls to right hand of porch; sawtooth brick eaves cornice to left hand and south-east wing. Red brick ridge stacks. Large rectangular planned ridge stack to left hand, and ridge stack with two diagonal shafts to right hand; C19 side stack to wing. Gabled porch with round headed outer doorway and C18 panelled inner door, with one casement window above; two first floor casement windows and two horizontal sliding sash dormer windows; wing to left hand with two C20 windows and one C19 four-paned hung sash attic window. Interior: Original four unit plan modified with sealed hearths; exposed floor frame with deeply chamfered axial beam, and internal timber-framed truss at first floor; boxed ceiling beams, sealed roof. The farmhouse site was formerly moated.

VCH Huntingdonshire p173 RCHM Huntingdonshire p98 Pevsner Bui dings of England p247

Listing NGR: TL1451689736