Description

CARLTON TOWN VILLAGE STREET SE 0684-0784 (north side) 16/81 Elm Tree Cottage and Elm Tree House and railings (formerly listed 13.2.67 separately as Elm Tree Farmhouse and Elm Tree Cottage respectively) GV II

Farmhouse, house and railings. Farmhouse dated 1751, probably with earlier origins, and with early C19 alterations; C19 railings. Coursed rubble, stone slate roofs, cast-iron railings. House: 2 storeys, 2:1:1:1 first- floor windows. Quoins. Farmhouse: first 4 bays. In third bay, 2-storey gabled, quoined porch: part-glazed 4-panel door in architrave; above it a round-headed fielded panel, wreathed and with "T G 1751"; first-floor 2-pane window in double-chamfered surround; shaped kneelers, ashlar coping and apex ball finial to gable. First, second and fourth bays: flat-faced mullion windows in ashlar architraves on ground floor; double-chamfered mullion windows on first floor; of 2, 3 and 3 lights respectively. Between fourth and fifth-bays, part-glazed door in ashlar doorcase with jambs treated as pilasters with bases and Tuscan abaci as capitals and lintel with rounded inner corners. Fifth bay: C20 casement windows in flush ashlar surrounds. Shaped kneelers, ashlar coping. Corniced stacks at ends and between third and fourth, and fourth and fifth bays. Railings at right angles to house from porch to front gate; plain bars with decorative finials, supported on ashlar base.

Listing NGR: SE0622984572

External Links

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