Elmes House

Elmes House is a house dating from the mid 18th century and 19th century, located on Vain Street in Pilton. It features squared coursed limestone with a 20th-century plain-tile roof and has an L-shaped plan. The building is two storeys high, with the main front displaying a five-window range. A central six-panel door is topped by a leaded fanlight and is set beneath a gauged stone head and a 19th-century flat wooden hood. The windows are leaded cross windows, also under gauged stone heads. There are hipped roof dormers with casement windows, as well as ashlar gable parapets, kneelers, and ashlar stacks at the ridge and end. To the right, there is a 19th-century lean-to extension, and at the rear, there is an early 19th-century two-storey extension. Inside, the house features an 18th-century staircase with simple turned balusters and remains of an open fireplace with a bressumer in the kitchen.