The Elms

The Elms is a large detached villa, now converted to apartments, dating to circa 1864 (first appearing in the Bath Directory for 1866). The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with a slate roof, featuring 20th-century dormers and decorative stacks. The plan is irregular, set on a sloping site and incorporating a large two-storey wing to the south-west.

The villa has three storeys and exhibits four windows to the south-west garden front and three windows to the south-east entrance front. It features plate-glass sash windows, a parapet, cornice, frieze, and a first-floor platband. The main entrance is located within a three-storey stair turret, which has tall domed finials, decorative piercing to the parapet, raised surrounds, keystones, and semicircular arches above the three-light second-floor windows and single first-floor windows, all flanked by similar windows on the main block. Rusticated quoins and architraves are present, with steps leading to a semicircular arched doorway. A raised courtyard with a conservatory is situated at the angle between the tower and the left side of the main block. The south-west front is three storeys high, with a full-height canted bay on the left side. The parapet is pierced with panels of three circles; the second-floor windows are level with the first-floor windows on the sloping site and are of a similar design. First-floor windows have flat arches and keystones up to the platband, with the central window of the bay being tripartite. The ground floor is fronted by an arcade, with a balustrade above forming a terrace to the first floor.

The interior has not been inspected. The house displays influences ranging from the Elizabethan to the Baroque periods, characteristic of its time, with the belvedere tower representing an Italianate feature and playing a key role in its picturesque design. The property was converted into flats in 1990, with an extension added at that time, as documented in Bath City Council planning files.

This building exhibits group value through its architectural style and context within the Weston Park area.