The Butts And Old Carpenters

The Butts and Old Carpenters is a pair of houses and a former workshop located on the west side of Elham High Street. Number 2 dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century, while Number 1 is from the early to mid-19th century. The Old Carpenters was converted into a house in the late 20th century. Number 2 is constructed of red and grey brick in Flemish bond, featuring lighter red brick dressings and "chainâge". Number 1 is built of red brick in Flemish bond. The Old Carpenters is made of flint with red and grey brick dressings on the ground floor, while the first floor is tile-hung. All three buildings have plain tile roofs.

Number 2 has two storeys and a cellar, with a short plat band above each ground-floor window. It features a moulded wooden eaves cornice with small Ionic modillions. The roof abuts Number 1 on the left and the Old Carpenters on the right, with eaves that are continuous but a hipped roof that rises to a higher ridge on the right half of Number 2. There is a brick stack on the front slope of the roof between Numbers 1 and 2, as well as a ridge stack at the right end of Number 2. The front has a regular arrangement of three windows, each with twelve-pane sashes in open boxes. The ground floor has similar windows, but with segmental heads and splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. The central door has flush panels and reeded strips, two top lights, a segmental head, and a flat floating corniced hood, accessed by five steps. There is a short red and grey brick rear wing to the left with a roof hipped to the rear and a small sixteen-pane sash.

Number 1 also has two storeys and a cellar, with a roof hipped to the left and a gable end stack on the left. It has one twelve-pane first-floor sash window to the left of centre and a similar ground-floor window with a segmental head. The door, located to the right, has four sunk moulded panels and a segmental head, also accessed by five steps. The parallel rear range is made of knapped flint with brick bands and dressings, featuring a plain tile roof hipped to the left.

The Old Carpenters has two storeys and a roof hipped to the right. It features a frieze of six six-pane lights under the eaves, stopping short of the ends. There is a red post-box in the wall at the right end of the ground floor, and a panelled door in a single-storey brick porch at the rear. The rear of the Old Carpenters wraps around the rear elevation of Number 2, abutting the side of Number 2's rear wing. The interiors have not been inspected. The Old Carpenters is included for its group value.