Elms Farmhouse

Elms Farmhouse is a house dating from 1676 or earlier, with later 20th-century restoration. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a peg-tiled roof and a red brick stack. The building has an L-shaped plan and consists of two storeys and an attic.

The front (west) elevation has a long three-window range and a large articulated square stack towards the south end, with a doorway directly in front. All windows are sliding sashes with four by three panes, dating from the 19th century but partly restored in the 20th century. There is a missing window at the north end of the ground floor. The doorway has been restored and features a plain cornice hood and jambs, along with a four-panelled door. The wall displays 20th-century basket pargetting, and above the doorway is a lozenge relief panel decorated with foliage and corner bosses, dated 1676.

The rear (east) elevation is similar to the front but includes a short gabled wing at the east and south end. The principal range has 20th-century basket pargetting, while the wing is lined with ashlar. The windows are somewhat scattered and consist of 20th-century casements. The wing has two storeys and an attic, while the main range has two storeys and a gabled dormer. There are two 20th-century glazed doors, one in each unit. The north and south end elevations are similar, each featuring two ground floor windows with one and two lights, as well as a two-light attic casement window with four by two panes. Weatherboarding is present at the tie-beam level.

Inside, the framing is exposed, and there is a three-celled lobby-entrance system with a chimney bay. The roof has clasped side purlins with shallow curved wind braces, and bladed scarf joints are visible in the wall plates. The stack includes large back-to-back timber-lintelled fireplaces on the ground floor, constructed with thin bricks. On the first floor, there is a single timber-lintelled fireplace in the chamber above the parlour at the south end. The stack shaft appears to have been added to the principal one, tapering from the ground floor. The date of 1676 may not correspond to the original construction, as the stack seems to be from the earlier 17th century. This date may instead commemorate improvements, including the addition of a single chamber fireplace and the rebuilding of the upper stage of the stack in a late 17th-century style.