Elm Tree Farmhouse

Elm Tree Farmhouse is a house dating from around the late 16th century, with extensions added in the 17th, 18th/19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, with brick facing and partial rebuilding in brick, and is painted. The roof is of plain clay tile, with half-hipped ends; it has brick axial stacks. The original layout was a four-room plan, with the two central rooms forming the original late 16th-century house with chambers above. A timber-framed chimney or smoke-bay originally served as a heat source for the hall on the southwest end, while a smaller, probably unheated, room was on the left (northeast) side. Around the 17th century, a brick stack replaced an earlier timber-framed chimney, and a larger parlour was added to the northeast end, with a smaller unheated room built on the right end, likely in either the 17th or 18th century. An outshut was added across the rear in the 18th or 19th century and raised in height in the 20th century.

The northwest front is asymmetrical, with a single storey and attic and four windows. It has 2- and 3-light casements with glazing bars, two on the ground floor set in cambered arched openings, a small 20th-century canted bay window to the right of centre, and three gabled half-dormers. At the rear, the main roof slopes down as a catslide over the outshut on the left; the remainder of the outshut to the right has been raised to two storeys and has a flat roof.

Inside, the hall features a cyma-and-fillet moulded axial beam without stops, large chamfered joists with hollow-step stops, and a similarly moulded girding beam in a central partition wall. It also has a large brick fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel without stops and an oven. The small room to the left of the hall has chamfered axial beams with a step-stop at one end and ceiled joists. The larger room at the northeast end has a chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops and a fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel with run-out stops. In the chambers, there are exposed jowled posts, a central partition with straight braces to a tie-beam and queen-struts to a collar, and in the left chamber, an exposed wind-brace. The roof space contains clasped purlins and wind-braces, common rafter couples, and at the southwest end, remains of the original timber-framed chimney or smoke-bay, featuring a collar and studs with smoke-blackening.