Elces

This is a lobby-entrance house, dating back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house is timber-framed and has a facade of stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with weatherboarding elsewhere. The roof is covered in handmade red clay tiles. It has four bays arranged approximately north-south, facing west. There’s an axial chimney stack in the second bay from the south, creating a lobby-entrance, and another external chimney stack on the north end. Two adjoining rear wings extend from the south side and the middle of the main block, and a catslide roof lean-to extension is attached to the north side of the main block. Further lean-to extensions, dating to the 19th century, cover the north end and the remainder of the rear, resulting in a rectangular plan. The house is two storeys high. A glazed door with a shallow hood, added in the 20th century, is present, along with a three-window range of late 19th-century double-hung sash windows with four lights, set under flat brick arches. A wall extending the facade to the north conceals a lean-to extension, with one late 19th-century casement window. Inside, the ground floor rooms feature axial ceiling beams with joists plastered to their undersides. On the rear wall stands a late 19th-century cast iron pump, mounted on brackets, with a fluted barrel and a manufacturer’s emblem of a flag, covered in layers of paint that obscure initials or numerals.