The Elms is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1984. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
The Elms
- WRENN ID
- ruined-basalt-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Elms, Upper Tockington Road, Olveston, BS32 4LQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 606 865
- Coordinates
- 51.57664, -2.56955
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elms is a farmhouse that features a significant 19th-century refronting of a 17th-century house, along with later alterations. It is constructed from rubble and rendered, topped with a double Roman tiled roof that has a gable stack at the north end and a ridge stack, as well as a shaped leaded roof over the porch. The building is 2½ storeys tall, with the north block set back and featuring two gables. The window arrangement is 1:2, with the north block having sashes in exposed boxes—one on the first floor and two on the ground floor. There is a 19th-century sash in the gable, which has bargeboards. The south block includes a porch with a shaped gable and cornice, with a 20th-century panelled and glass door to the left. There is a canted bay that extends through two storeys, featuring 16-pane sashes, along with a sash in an exposed box in the gable above and a 16-pane sash on both the ground and first floors to the right. The south elevation has a single-storey extension with a pitched roof and scattered windows. The rear of the building has three gables of varying sizes, including a lower rear wing with a double gable end and scattered windows, one of which is a first-floor right 2-light double chamfered mullion casement. The interior is not accessible.
Local climate
The Elms receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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