Elms Cottage And Attached Wall And Stable Block The Elms

Elms Cottage and the attached wall and stable block, together with The Elms, date from around 1830. The Elms is an early 19th-century house, now divided into two dwellings, constructed of ashlar, with a hipped Welsh slate roof and various ashlar side and valley stacks. It is built in a late classical style, featuring wide overhanging eaves. The main range is two storeys high, with a two-window front featuring 12-pane unhorned sash windows. A central open stone porch, supported by square Tuscan piers and having an entablature and blocking course, provides access via double part-glazed doors. A sash window is located to the right, and a slightly projecting stack is to the left. A sill band runs along the first floor. A two-storey bay window is set into the left end, with glazing bar sashes, alongside a slightly projecting stack with a mid-19th century sash window to the first floor far left. The rear garden front has a projecting section to the left with a tripartite sash with glazing bars on both floors, the lower sash descending to ground level with a segmental head. A mid-19th century sash window is located in the re-entrant angle to the right, and two sashes are present on each floor to the right, with 12 panes above and 15 panes below. Shutters are fitted to the first-floor windows on the front. A veranda with cast-iron columns, the roof of which was renewed in the mid-20th century, is situated in front of the right section. The interior of the main range features a stick baluster staircase with a wreathed handrail, along with wood and plaster gilded pelmets in the drawing room, sitting room, and morning room, and marble fireplaces in the two former rooms. A mid-19th century patterned marble and tile floor is also present. The service wing is a two-storey, two-window range of 9-pane over 12-pane sash windows, with a doorway on both the front and right ends. A tripartite sash window is situated to the right of the ground floor window of the right end. The stable block, built in a similar style, is linked to the right end of the service wing by a high stone wall. It is a two-storey, two-window range with 2-light casements and stone flat arches. A central door with overlight and a loft door above are also present. The Elms retains approximately 8 acres of parklike grounds with mature trees.