The Elms is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1984. A Georgian House.

The Elms

WRENN ID
haunted-gutter-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Gloucestershire
Constituency
Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 December 1984
Type
House
Period
Georgian
Address
The Elms, the Street, Olveston
OS grid reference
ST 601 871
Coordinates
51.5817, -2.57624
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Elms is a house with origins dating back to the 17th century, which was enlarged and refronted in the early 19th century, with later alterations. The building is constructed of rubble and has a rendered stucco front. It features a slate roof with raised, coped verges and gable stacks, while the rear has a three-span roof covered with pantiles. The house is two storeys high and has four windows, all of which are 16-pane sashes.

The second bay from the right has a flat-roofed porch adorned with quatrefoils on the corner dies, a cornice, a parapet, and coping. The porch includes an outer double door and an inner six-panelled door with a fanlight and decorative radial glazing bars, flanked by pilasters and topped with an open pediment on short pilasters.

The north elevation displays irregular windows, including a first-floor left two-light casement with leaded lights, a first-floor right sash in an exposed box, a plank door to the left, and a panelled and glass door with a transom light to the right. The south elevation features a bow with three windows, consisting of two sashes and a central three-pane sash, with a 16-pane sash above that has a drip mould. The rear of the house has two windows, with sashes on the first floor, a 20th-century door, and a 16-pane sash on the ground floor. The interior has not been inspected.

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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Peacehaven Grade II 62 m
  2. Sedgeley Grade II 70 m
  3. Cromwell House Grade II 100 m
  4. Churchill House Grade II 117 m
  5. The White Hart Grade II 131 m
  6. 1 and 2 Longhaven Grade II 131 m
  7. Post Office Grade II 135 m
  8. Olveston War Memorial with associated steps and flanking dwarf walls Grade II 142 m
  9. The Old Vicarage Grade II 169 m
  10. Church of St Mary Grade II* 176 m