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Elm House, located at No. 4 Ruperts Elm, is a building dating from the 17th to 18th century. Originally known as the Bell Inn, it served as an important coaching inn during the 18th and early 19th centuries and later became part of the Royal Grammar School. The building is now divided into three houses.

The facade is finished in stucco and features a wide central pediment with a moulded bracketed wooden cornice that extends across and over the pediment. It has an old tiled roof with four symmetrically placed chimneys and stands two storeys high, with a lunette in the pediment. There are 16 windows, which include 17th-century frames and 18th-century sashes, with glazing bars, except for the lower half of the visible ground floor windows.

A central three-light window is positioned above the portico, with the central light serving as a door to a balcony that is enclosed by a plain iron railing. The late 18th-century portico features fluted pilasters flanking the door, with outer Doric fluted pillars that support an entablature with a flat bracketed cornice. The three doors at the entrance are modern.