The Elms Health Centre

The Elms Health Centre is an early 18th-century large L-shaped house that features two storeys, cellars, and attics. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, and it has a high brick wall extending to the east. There are 19th-century two-storey weatherboarded extensions at the rear, topped with slate roofs. The building has old red tile roofs that are hipped with bellcast eaves, and red brick chimneys that rise through the ridge.

The north front of the house has two hipped dormers and a wood modillioned eaves cornice. The façade is symmetrically designed with four windows arranged as A-B-B-A, and a central pargetting motif featuring a circle within a quatrefoil above the door. The inner first-floor windows have flush box sashes with architraves and 6/6 panes of crown glass set in thick glazing bars with ovolo moulding on the inside. The outer first-floor windows have wider flush box sashes with 8/8 panes, which are likely of a later date. The ground floor features a similar window pattern, but the sashes have been renewed. A wood doorcase leads up steps, supported by fluted Ionic pilasters that rise from moulded bases, holding up a full entablature with a swelled frieze and triangular pediment. A sun firemark numbered 169528 is located in the tympanum.

The east front facing the garden has a modillioned cornice and flush box sashes with 8/8 panes and architraves on the first floor, flanking a central triple window with a configuration of 4/4:8/8:4/4. The ground floor has central French doors flanked by 8/12 sashes.

Inside, there is a wide entrance hall flanked by two rooms. The room on the right side of the first floor features a simple dentilled cornice and a shouldered wooden fire surround with scrolls supporting an entablature that serves as a shelf. The original staircase has heavy balusters leading to the attics, which have chamfered plank doors with old iron hinges.

Attached to the south are single-storey outbuildings with slate roofs, which support a small 18th-century wrought iron garden gate adorned with horizontal scrollwork. The name "The Elms" has been in use only since 1888, and the local authority acquired the house in 1964. The north front is illustrated by Nathaniel Lloyd as an example of pargetting in his book "A History of the English House," published in 1931.