Elmscroft And Garden Wall Attached To North West Corner

This is a farmhouse, dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th, 18th, and mid-20th centuries. Originally timber framed, the front facade was rebuilt in the 18th century using red and grey brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The original design included an open hall of two timber-framed bays, with the ends rebuilt in brick during the 18th century, and the left end extended further. The house has two storeys and a cellar, built upon a stone plinth. A plat band runs along the front, stopping to the left of the left-hand stack. A mid-20th century moulded wooden eaves cornice is present. The roof is gabled to the left and hipped to the right, with the right hip extending to the rear. Four brick stacks are visible, with moulded cornices: one on the front slope towards the left end, one ridge stack to the right of centre (to the right end of the left hall bay), one projecting from the right gable end, and another projecting from the right return wing. The windows are irregular, with five sashes in wooden frames; four are bipartite, meaning they have a central mullion dividing the panes. There are two pairs of eight-pane sashes to the left of the left stack, and one pair of twelve-pane sashes to the right, a single twelve-pane sash to the left of the central stack, and two pairs of twelve-pane sashes towards the right end. All ground-floor windows have segmentally arched heads. The front door consists of six fielded panels, with a console-supported shell hood dating from the 1950s, located at the right end of the hall. A two-storey rear return wing is present on the right-hand side, with brickwork on the ground floor and tile hanging above. It includes a three-light horizontally-sliding sash window and a two-storey polygonal brick bay window to the rear gable end. Further two-storey rear additions are present to the left and centre, some of which are tile-hung. Inside, a four-centred arched doorway (possibly leading to a parlour or staircase) is visible facing into the hall, opposite the current front door. The hall retains plain end-of-hall crown posts, each with two foot braces and mortises for a head brace, as well as a moulded octagonal central crown post with four head braces. A 16th century fireplace is located to the right side of the central stack, featuring moulded stone jambs and a cambered hollow-chamfered bressumer with doubly-recessed hollow spandrels and a central rose. The garden wall, also constructed of red and grey brick in a Flemish bond pattern, is approximately single-storey in height, with buttresses and chamfered brick coping. It runs north from the northwest corner of the house, curves, and extends approximately 20 metres west to the road.