The Elms

TOFT MONKS ELMS ROAD TM 49 SW 8/93 The Elms 25-9-51

GV II*

Farmhouse. Early C17 and C18. Red brick. Steeply pitched pantiled roofs; black glazed tiles on west side. Two storeys and attics. Main facade of five bays arranged 1:3:1; symmetrical, outer bays occupied by 2-storey canted bays. Sashes with glazing bars under rubbed brick arches. Eaves parapet on brick dentil cornice. Plain corner pilasters. Central doorway with 6-panel door, Doric doorcase with open pediment and semicircular fanlight with glazing bars. Three gabled dormers with decorative barge boards. Crow-stepped north and south gables. Axial stack, off-centre to south, with linked shafts. External stack on north gable. Attic casement in south gable, lower openings blocked. On the west side, opposite the stack, a 2 1/2 storey stair turret with stepped gable. Blocked 3-light attic window; 3 and 4-light mullion and transom windows below. At the south-west, one and two-storey wings, square with castellated parapets; blocked openings, some with plain brick drip moulds; sashes with glazing bars in south wall. Catslide roof over lean-to at north-west corner. 1 1/2 storey wing to north with stepped gable; two C20 flat-roofed dormers; square projection on west side with castellated parapet. Attached castellated screen wall to garden at north-east corner; garden wall to south, red brick with piers and saddleback coping.

Listing NGR: TM4332293992