Elm Tree Cottage

Elm Tree Cottage is a house dating from the 15th or early 16th century, with alterations made in the late 16th to early 17th century, as well as in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed from rubblestone with large quoins and padstones that support crucks incorporated into the structure. It has been heightened in two stages, with the left side in rubblestone and the right side in brick, and features a thatched roof. Originally, it was a single-storey, four-bay open hall, which had a floor inserted and was raised to create a two-storey façade, with an additional single-storey bay added on the right.

A large porch was added in 1989, which features small-pane wooden casement windows. The porch, made of breeze blocks, includes a door, a window, and a half-hipped plain tile roof. To the right of the porch is a one-light window, while to the left is a partially-masked former doorway and a padstone, along with a small window at the far left. The first floor has three windows. The roof is hipped at the left end and half-hipped at the right end, with a broad brick cross-ridge stack positioned to the left of center.

At the rear, there is an early 20th-century brick outbuilding with a catslide roof on the right. The windows at the rear are mostly from the 20th century, but there is one late 16th or 17th-century two-light chamfered mullion window with a leaded iron casement, which may have been reused as the stone members do not fit well.

On the left return, there is a quoined doorway with a 20th-century six-panel door (four panels are glazed) and a bracketed corrugated-iron hood. To the right of the doorway is a three-light window, and above it is a two-light window.

Inside, the second bay from the left on the ground floor features a spine beam with a deep chamfer and lambs tongue stops, along with old joists. The first floor retains old floorboards and, between the right-hand bays, there is plank and muntin panelling with some scratch moulding. Two cruck frames are visible, primarily on the first floor; the right one terminates at the wall plate, while the central one is a full-height support with a square-section diagonally-set ridge piece. The roof includes deep diagonally-laid through purlins and old plank-like rafters, with one section supporting a wattle super-structure. The roof timbers show signs of having been smoke-blackened.