The Elms

The Elms is a detached house located on Station Road in Tiverton, built around the 1840s with alterations made around 1900. The building features mass wall construction that is stuccoed and blocked out, topped with a hipped slate roof. The stacks have been dismantled.

The house has an unusual plan for its size, being two rooms wide but effectively only one room deep, as the front portion includes an axial passage that contains the stair. There is no evidence of a former kitchen in the main range, suggesting that a service wing may be missing.

The exterior of the house is two storeys high with a cellar. It has a symmetrical three-window front with a platband at the first-floor level. A central porch supported by Tuscan columns with fluted capitals features a deep dentil cornice. The entrance includes a six-panel door with a segmental-headed fanlight set in a doorcase with panelled reveals. The central window on the ground floor is a tripartite sash window with four-pane sashes in the centre and two-pane sashes on the outer lights. The first-floor centre window is round-headed with six fixed panes. To the left, there is a lower block, likely added later, with a two-window front featuring four-pane and two-pane sashes. The rear elevation originally had French windows but has been altered for industrial use.

Inside, the house retains several interesting features, including a stick baluster stair that rises axially along the front wall, complete with stick balusters and a ramped wreathed handrail. Other interior details include a moulded doorcase with flower motifs, a six-panel door, a plaster cornice, a chair rail, and shutters. The right-hand rear room has been gutted for industrial storage. The lower-roofed block contains stairs leading down to the cellar. A front right wing known as Oakdale is a separate property and is not included in the listing; it may have originally been an Edwardian wing that replaced an earlier service wing.