Elm Tree Farmhouse

Elm Tree Farmhouse is a house with origins in the 15th century, a late 16th-century cross wing, and a main range rebuilt in the mid 17th century, with alterations in the 19th century. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with steeply pitched plain tiled roofs. The building is arranged in an "L" shape. Originally, the house comprised an open hall with a three-bay parlour cross wing added to the left, with the hall and service bays rebuilt, retaining a screens passage. It has two storeys. The screens passage entrance is located to the right of the centre, featuring a six-panelled, architraved door. There are three-light sash windows with glazing bars, some opening to form six lights on the ground floor of the hall. Ground floor hoodboards are present. Above the entrance and below the boxed eaves is a reset early 16th-century carved oriel soffit depicting an angel bearing De la Pole arms. The axial ridge stack is located to the left between the hall and parlour, featuring four conjoined hexagonal shafts. A half-glazed door is on the right gable end, alongside two small casements. Exposed purlins are visible. To the left is a gablet over a 19th-century hip on the parlour wing, with a lower ridge and two- and three-light casements. The rear gable end has a pentice board, exposed plates and purlins, and a lean-to outshut on the inner return. The rear of the main range has scattered two-light casements; a first-floor original four-light chamfered mullioned window is present, along with an inserted stack in the service bay.

Inside, a 17th-century panelled screen with chamfered muntins divides the hall. Other internal features include close studding, stop-chamfered storey posts, a raised cross axial binding beam and joists, a two-light chamfered mullioned window opening, an 18th-century corner cupboard, a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam in the service bay, a staircase behind the stack, and a parlour with a restored 17th-century ornamental plaster ceiling divided into two sections by a roll-moulded cross axial binding beam. Further features include roll mouldings around the panels, central fleur-de-lis and Tudor rose lozenges, scrolled pomegranate borders, cranked and curved braces in the walling, straight braces to tie beams, and original posts flanking the stack with a tie beam cut. The parlour wing contains a depressed brick arched fireplace and reverse curved bracing; it was reroofed and originally had arched braces to tie beams. The main range has a double purlin roof with lower butt purlins, upper purlins clasped by collars and halved principal rafters, and arched windbraces. Attached to the rear of the service end is a 19th-century outbuilding, weatherboarded and pantiled, with mixed casements, stable doors, and a ridge stack.