Listed Building: HOME FARMHOUSE (282303)

SOUTH ELMHAM ST. CROSS TM 28 SE 3/43 Home Farmhouse 1.9.53 - II Farmhouse. Late C16/early C17. 2 storeys, formerly with attics; 3-cell lobby-entrance form to main range, and a cross-wing, probably later, on the north. Timber-framed and rendered; black glazed pantiles; ornamental ridge tiles. The internal chimney-stack has a plain red brick shaft. One dormer window within a high gabled projection with a carved and moulded tie-beam, pierced and fluted barge-boards and a spike finial; similar bargeboards and finials to the other gables. Old 3-light and 4-light casement windows with transomes, and some plain 3-light replacement casements. C19 porch in colour- washed brick, enclosed and gabled. At the south end, facing the road, the gable wall is in colour-washed brick: moulded corbels and the moulded base to a former finial at the apex of the roof; a 3-light window with cavetto-moulded brick mullions to the attic storey, 2 similar blocked 2-light windows to the upper floor, and a similar blocked 5-light window to the ground floor. Interior not examined, but the timbers are all said to be covered. Attics now sealed off and roof inaccessible. Listing NGR: TM2980183188