Elley Farmhouse

Farmhouse, dating from the late 16th to early 17th century, with 18th and 19th century alterations. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with some 20th century concrete block rebuilding, and stone rubble or cob stacks topped with 20th century brick. The thatched roof is gable-ended to the left and hipped to the right, with a change in eaves height from left to right. The original 3-room-and-through-passage plan house faces south, featuring an inner room at the west end and an 18th-century single-room extension on the service end. A projecting rear lateral stack serves the hall, replacing an earlier stack from the late 16th or early 17th century located at the front. The facade has an irregular arrangement of 4 windows, with a mix of late 18th- to early 19th-century, 19th-century, and 20th-century casements of varying sizes, some with glazing bars. Two 1st-floor casements have had the thatch lifted to accommodate them. The interior largely reflects 19th-century modernisation, but retains some original features. An oak plank-and-muntin screen, with chamfered muntins and run-out stops, is visible at the upper end of the hall. The fireplace is brick from the 19th century, with a plain oak lintel and a bread oven, although a partly buried oak lintel of a blocked late 16th or early 17th-century fireplace, with a chamfered soffit following a flattened Tudor arch, is present in the front wall. The hall was floored in the early 17th century with soffit-chamfered crossbeams with late, stepped stops. The roof space appears to contain A-frame trusses, suggesting a 17th or later date. A late 17th or early 18th-century crossbeam with soffit-chamfered and run-out stops is visible in the cider store of the extension.