The Elms Including Front Garden Wall, Gate Piers And Gates

House. Dating back to the 18th century, with an early 19th-century extension built to accommodate a visit by the Duke of Wellington, the property is constructed of stucco with a slate roof. The central portion of the house is tall with a symmetrical three-story, three-window front. Lower wings are set back at each end, featuring two stories and an attic, and one window to the gabled front. The north side of the wings is now masked by a later forward extension, which comprises a tower and a windowless rectangular block of approximately one and a half stories with top lighting. The central section has a crenellated parapet and openings with ogee heads capped by decorative roundels. Windows on the second floor have cills at the foot of the curves, while those on the first and ground floors include Venetian lights on each side, repeated on the south wing with blank side panels. The walls are grooved with a rustication pattern. The windows are sash windows. The central doorway is of classical form, with a Tuscan entablature and Gothic triple attached columns, enclosed in a later, simpler classical porch with square columns, which is now walled-in with side windows and a plain doorway.

The tower features Gothick niches and narrow corner pilasters, each with three shallow panels marked by circular designs and cusping. The front wall continues from the tower northwards, with a four oval-arched blind arcade and rusticating bands. This block encloses the Wellington Room, a rectangular apartment with four Ionic columns at the north side, supporting an entablature which continues around the room as a decorative frieze, featuring Greek ornament. Above the frieze is coving leading to a flat ceiling with an octagonal opening, again with coving to the base of the top light. The lower walls have a dentilled band above three tiers of panelling and a skirting; the interior is enriched with niches and floral decorations, having undergone recent renovation. The front gate piers are topped with pineapples, and a 'Tudor' side gate within a wall is also capped with pineapples.