Warley Elms

Warley Elms is a house dating to approximately 1800, with 20th-century additions. It is constructed of yellow brick with a stuccoed front, and has a hipped slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan, with a 20th-century ground-floor billiard room added to the west end.

The south elevation, which is the front of the house, has three window bays, with a slight projection of the central bay. This front is stuccoed with horizontal ashlar lining and clasping corner pilasters. A simple, projecting Tuscan door porch has plain columns and a cornice, and the original door features four panels on each leaf, with upper panels glazed and moulded surrounds. Shallow, stuccoed, semicircular arched recesses flank the doorway, each containing a window. The original sash windows have thin glazing bars and 3x4 panes, with wooden liners to the reveals. The west front of the 20th-century addition is set back, with an ashlar-lined stucco facade and a parapet. It features two semicircular-headed, fully glazed French windows with glazing bars and 4x4 panes.

The north elevation, at the rear, has three bays similar to the front, but with a parapet between clasping pilasters. It is pebble-dashed and colourwashed, with sash windows having glazing bars and 3x4 panes. A continuous plain string course links the window heads on the ground floor. A stack projects slightly between the east and central bays. The east elevation has two window bays, with ground-floor, semicircular, stuccoed recesses containing windows, matching the front, along with clasping pilasters and a parapet. Again, all windows are sashes with 3x4 panes and a continuing string course. The west elevation is pebble-dashed, with clasping pilasters and a parapet, and a semicircular-headed recess with a window and string course to the south, and a 20th-century single-story extension with three symmetrical windows, aligned with the front. The first floor has two upper windows, one central and one to the south, over the window below. A central stack rises behind the parapet. The principal walling is yellow brick, with finely set voussoirs above the first-floor windows. The area around the south ground floor window has been pebble-dashed.

The interior is largely plain but includes a curved flying stair with an elegant mahogany handrail and decorative iron balusters. Ornamental plaster cornices are found on some rooms and at the top of the stair on the first floor, along with original fireplaces with reeded jambs and roundels. The presence of a parapet on all elevations, except the south, suggests it originally continued around the whole building. The horizontal ashlar lining on the front appears to be a 20th-century replacement, as is the extension, and the front elevation was most probably originally stuccoed and lined, later being completely re-done in the 20th century. The parapet was likely removed during this work.