NHER 44355 (Building record) - The Elms, The Street

House of one storey and attic. North wall against road now blank and divided up by pilaster-buttresses but with some evidence of older openings. Bricks have diagonal skintlings. Recent dormers above. House extended to east and all south side rebuilt in 1990s. Interior has a beam of recent date at original east end where a chimney is stated to have been removed. To the west is a beam with pyramid stops; then a former wall is marked by an archway, above which is a beam with mortises and cuts but now hardly visible. Reed and plaster was removed to make the arch. Next room has a beam with run-out stops and finally there is a rough-cut beam, and west fireplace having a bressumer with underbuilt pyramid stops, crane holes and two rectangular mortices. The actual fireplace was rebuilt in 1997 following a fire; it is stated to have had a bread oven behind.
The upper floor has a roof with one order of staggered butt purlins and board collars partly removed.
The combination of 18th century brickwork and roof and the 17th century style stops on one beam and bressumer suggests a date at the beginning of the 18th century, but very little of the original fabric remains on which to base a diagnosis.
E. Rose (NLA), 19 April 2006 (Original text compiled 1999).