Elms Farmhouse

Elms Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber framed, roughcast rendered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The 18th-century front range consists of four bays facing southwest, featuring an internal stack at the rear of the left bay. Behind the right end is an early 17th-century rear range with three bays, an axial stack at the junction, and a single-storey extension beyond that has an end stack. The building is two storeys high and has a three-window range of 18th-century sashes with 12 lights. The entrance features a six-panel door, with the top two panels glazed, set in a reeded doorcase from the early 19th century, topped with a shallow hood on profiled brackets. The roof is hipped. Inside the rear range, there is a large wood-burning hearth in the front bay, with axial and transverse beams in the middle bay that are boxed in, and heavy square section transverse joists in the rear bay. The roof has clasped purlins, which are original in the rear bay but slightly altered in the middle and front bays. The front range has one section of exposed framing, which is hardwood pegged and jointed with primary straight bracing. Additionally, a partition between two rooms on the ground floor has been removed.