Elms Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1981. House.
Elms Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- upper-gallery-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elms Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The building has three bays aligned northeast-southwest, featuring an axial chimney stack and an external chimney stack at the northeast end, the upper half of which was rebuilt in the 20th century. There is a three-bay crosswing to the southwest, which has an external chimney stack on its southwest wall. Originally, both sections jutted out to the southeast, but this has since been underbuilt. The main aspect of the house is southeast.
At the northeast end, there is a stair tower with a gabled roof, and behind the southwest bay of the main range, there is a single-storey extension, along with a lean-to between the two, creating a catslide roof. Additionally, there is a single-storey extension to the southwest. The farmhouse has two storeys with attics. The entrance features a six-panel flush door, with the top panels glazed. There are two 20th-century casement windows, one double-hung sash window with 12 lights, and two 19th-century bays of sash windows. On the first floor, there is one 19th-century oriel window with a tented roof, one bay over the bay below, and two late 19th-century sash windows with four lights each. The axial chimney stack has three octagonal shafts, which have been shortened.
Inside, some framing is exposed, and there is one original unglazed window with four diamond mullions in the rear wall. In the crosswing, there is a beam with a single ogee moulding and chamfered joists that have lamb's tongue stops. The first floor of the crosswing features straight rising braces inside the studs and an original window in the southwest wall, which has three ovolo mullions and three diamond bars.
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