Elm Tree Farmhouse

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DURLEY

SU51NW DURLEY STREET, 1879-0/3/10000 (South East side) Elm Tree Farmhouse GV II

House. Circa late C16, extended in C17, C18/19 and C20. Timber-framed, faced and partly rebuilt in brick, painted. Plain clay tile roof with half-hipped ends. Brick axial stacks. PLAN: 4-room-plan main front range. The two centre rooms are the original late C16 house with chambers above, the hall on the right heated from a timber-framed chimney or smoke-bay on the right hand [SW] end and a smaller, probably unheated, room on the left. In circa C17 a brick stack replaced a timber-framed chimney and a larger parlour was added at the left [NE] end; a small unheated room was built on the right end in the C17 or C18. The outshut across the back is an C18 or C19 addition and was heightened in the C20. EXTERIOR: 1-storey and attic. Asymmetrical 4-window north west front. 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars, two on ground floor in cambered arched openings, small C20 canted bay window to right of centre and three gabled half dormers. At rear the main roof is carried down as catslide over outshut on left; the remainder of the outshut to the right has been raised to two storeys and has a flat roof. INTERIOR: Hall has cyma-and-fillet moulded axial beam without stops and large chamfered joists with hollow-step stops; similarly moulded girding beam in central partition wall and large brick fireplace with chamfered timber lintel without stops and with oven. Small room to left of hall has chamfered axial beam with step-stop at one end and ceiled joists. Larger room at left [NE] end has chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops and fireplace with chamfered timber lintel with run-out stops. In the chambers: exposed jowled posts, central partition with straight braces to tie-beam and queen-struts to collar; left chamber has exposed wind-brace. In the roof-space: clasped purlins and wind-braces and common rafter couples intact; at the south west end remains of the timber-framed chimney or smoke-bay with a collar and studs, smoke-blackened.

Listing NGR: SU5238617391