Elmsall House, and associated structures including Elmsall Barn is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Farmhouse, barn, outbuildings. 3 related planning applications.

Elmsall House, and associated structures including Elmsall Barn

WRENN ID
north-spire-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1987
Type
Farmhouse, barn, outbuildings
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Elmsall House is an early 19th-century farmhouse with associated barn and outbuildings, built of local squared sandy limestone with Welsh slate roofing to the main range and pantile roofing to the rear.

The main house follows an originally central-entry plan with a rear service range. The south-facing main range comprises three bays over two storeys and is quoined with coped gables featuring shaped kneelers and stone end stacks. Windows are fitted with painted, tooled-stone lintels and sills, with hornless sashes of either 16 or 12 panes retaining much original glass. The original main entrance, now converted to a 12-pane sash, is located on the south elevation. Access is now via a rear porch added in 1974, which retains a 9-panelled early 19th-century door thought to be the original front door relocated. Attic rooms are lit by gable-end windows and a modern rooflight to the centre of the north pitch.

The rear service range, standing 1.5 storeys, features a tall multi-paned window to its east elevation rising as a dormer. This opening may have been converted from an original taking-in door for an attic granary, probably used historically to store valuable seed corn. An interconnected single-storey range of outbuildings extends eastward from the main house's east gable.

Internally, the house retains most of its original window shutters throughout. Doors, though re-hung, are probably largely original, as is much internal joinery, with the exception of the modern staircase in the main house. The south-eastern ground floor room retains early 19th-century cornicing, while cornicing in the other two reception rooms is modern. The original roof structure features a pair of attic roof trusses supporting pegged purlins. The rear range has a well-worn stone staircase accessing its attic floor.

The large early 19th-century barn is built of variable handmade bricks with a stone eaves course and pantiled roof. It features a wide range of openings, both original and later insertions, some subsequently blocked or altered, along with numerous original ventilation openings formed in stone and brick. A full-height partition wall divides the interior, with the upper portion timber-framed. This partition and most of the roof structure are considered original. The upper floor structure west of the partition is thought to be early or possibly original, whilst that to the east has clearly been altered in the 20th century. A single-storey lean-to to the north is thought to be early, though built in different brick. Extensions to the east, west and south employ later brickwork, with the eastern extension featuring an eaves course of concrete blockwork.

Stone-built, pantile-roofed outbuildings serve the house.

The gardens are enclosed by tall stone boundary walls with flat copings, the southern face to both east and west of the house being brick-faced. The southern garden boundary is formed by a stone-built ha-ha. The stone boundary wall between the house and the former farmyard to the north is modern, though stone-built. Entrance walls consisting of stone coped boundary walls flanking the original farm entrance ramp downwards to end at ball-topped stone gate-piers.

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