161 Eldo Road

161 Eldo Road is a former farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings. It dates from the early 17th century and was built in two phases. The main range is a single-cell structure that has been shortened at the left end, possibly indicating it was once part of a larger three-cell house. To the right, there is a slightly later cross-wing. The main range features banded brick and clunch, which has been whitewashed, along with a roughcast-rendered facade and rendered gables. The roofs are covered in corrugated iron, with the roof over the wing hipped at the rear, sloping down over a later addition. The building stands two storeys high with an attic in the main range. It has various casement windows from the 19th and mid-20th centuries, including three small-paned centre-pivoting windows on the side wall of the wing. The entrance is a lobby with a semi-glazed four-panel door, and there is an internal stack with a square gault brick shaft located just behind the main roof ridge.

Inside, the main range features chamfered ceiling beams on both the ground and first floors, with the joists plastered over. There are three blocked original upper window openings with splayed reveals—two at the front and one at the rear. The roof is a well-preserved wind-braced clasped purlin design. The cross-wing consists of three bays, with the front two bays on the ground floor originally separated from the rear bay. The studding is of good quality, with some parts exposed during the survey.

In the front wall, there are two reused 16th-century mullions with roll and cavetto moulding. The ceiling beams are chamfered without stops, and the joists are set flat in two bays, though those in the rear bay are missing. There is an open fireplace with an original lintel that has been reduced in length. A solid-tread ladder stair leads to the attic. At the rear, there is a 19th-century extension that forms a kitchen, separated from the rest of the wing by a brick partition wall in the centre bay. The roof over the wing has low common rafters without a ridgepiece, clasped purlins, and one of the collars features dovetail lap joints to the rafters.