Listed Building: ELM TREE FARMHOUSE (280328)

MELLIS MELLIS GREEN (NORTH SIDE) TM 17 SW 4/39 Elm Tree Farmhouse 29.7.55 (formerly listed as Elm Tree Farmhouse and barn) GV 11* House. C15 origins, late C16 cross wing, main range rebuilt in mid C17, altered C19. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched plaintiled roofs. An L on plan: originally an open hall with 3 bay parlour cross wing added to left, hall and service bays rebuilt retaining screens passage. All 2 storeys. Screens passage entrance to right of centre with a 6 raised panelled architraved door. 3-light glazing bar casements, part opening 6-lights to hall on-ground floor, ground floor hoodboards. Above entrance and below boxed eaves is a reset early C16 carved oriel soffit with an angel bearing De la Pole arms. Axial ridge stack to left between hall and parlour has 4 conjoined hexagonal shafts. Right gable end half glazed door, 2 small casements, exposed purlins. To left a gablet over C19 hip to parlour wing with lower ridge, 2 and 3-light casements, rear gable end pentice board, exposed plates and purlins, lean-to outshut on inner return. Main range to rear has scattered 2-light casements, first floor over hall original 4-light chamfered mullioned window, an inserted stack in service bay. Interior: C17 panelled screen with chamfered muntins to hall, close studding, stop chamfered storey posts, raised cross axial binding beam and joists, 2-light chamfered mullioned window opening, C18 corner cupboard, stop chamfered cross axial binding beam in service bay, stairs behind stack, parlour has restored C17 ornamental plaster ceiling divided into 2 sections by roll moulded cross axial binding beam, roll mouldings continue around panels with central fleur-de-lis and Tudor rose lozenges, scrolled pomegranate borders. First floor cranked and curved braces in walling, straight braces to tie beams, stop chamfered binding beam, original posts flank stack with tie beam cut. Parlour wing depressed brick arched fireplace, reverse curved bracing, reroofed, originally had arched braces to tie beams. Main range double purlin roof, lower butt purlins, upper purlins clasped by collars and halved principal rafters, arched windbraces. Attached to rear of service end a C19 outbuilding, weatherboarded and pantiled, mixed casements, stable doors, ridge stack (East Anglian Miscellany, 1930, pp33-36). - Listing NGR: TM1042574767