Elm Cottage

Elm Cottage is a house, now divided into two homes, dating from the 16th century, with an earlier crosswing. A floor and chimney were added in the 17th century, and the building was divided in the 19th century. It features a timber frame on a stuccoed plinth, with roughcast walls and steeply pitched roofs originally covered in old red tiles, now replaced with red tiles at the front. The house has a large T-plan layout, facing north, with a taller two-storey crosswing on the west side. There is a large internal chimney located a third of the way from the east end, along with a projecting chimney on the west side of the wing, which has been rebuilt. The north front has four windows on each floor, featuring two-light flush casement windows. At the left-hand end of the front is a broad doorway with a four-centred, hollow-chamfered design. The ground floor of the crosswing includes a gabled porch. There is a single-storey garage added in the 20th century linked to the north end, and a two-storey south extension built around 1985.

The hall range has two bays at the south and a longer hall bay next to the crosswing, which is an older structure. The interior showcases an exposed frame with swept jowls on the posts, a chamfered cambered tie beam supported by curved braces, and curved tension braces in the walls. The wallplate features an edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts, and the front wall is close studded. The roof has clasped purlins with curved wind-braces, and there are shutter grooves under the wallplate for mullioned windows. The end trusses contain collars and vertical struts. When the central brick chimney was constructed in the second bay from the east, the tie-beam of the truss immediately to the east was cut away, and a rougher tie-beam was introduced further to the west, positioned hard against the stack.