Elmtree Farmhouse

Elmtree Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the early 17th century, with a middle part from that period, an early 18th-century northern crosswing, and an 18th-century southern end and front porch. There have been 19th-century alterations, including a bay window on the crosswing. The building features a timber frame with red brick infill, and the rear is exposed, while the rest is roughcast. It has steep old red tile roofs and is a long, two-storey structure with a cellar, set back from the road and facing east.

The farmhouse includes a gabled northern crosswing, a wide projecting two-storey gabled porch, and a large internal chimney that rises through the rear slope of the roof, featuring a toothed and corbelled head with angular side pilasters. The open porch has a flush box sash window above with 6/6 panes. There is a similar window on the first floor of the crosswing, with a deep canted flat-topped bay window below, also with 6/6 panes. To the right of the porch, there are triple sash windows on each floor, while to the left, there are two similar windows with hinged side casements above a three-light casement and a panelled door with a gabled hood on shaped brackets leading into the kitchen end. Later chimneys are located at the southern gable, the northern side of the crosswing, and the northwest corner of the front porch block.

Inside, the original layout was a two-cell, central-chimney, lobby entrance plan, with the chimney positioned towards the back wall to allow space for a staircase in the entrance lobby. An ovolo-moulded axial beam in the hall, located south of the stack, dates from 1600 to 1640. Much of the parlour to the north of the stack has been taken up by a fine early 18th-century staircase built behind the stack when the new northern parlour wing was added. The staircase features a cut string with scrolls at the ends of the treads, each with two turned balusters, and a moulded handrail with two wreaths at the bottom. The 18th-century parts at each end have chamfered axial beams.