Listed Building: ELMTREE FARMHOUSE (391283)

LOWESTOFT TM59SW ELMTREE ROAD, Pakefield 914-1/3/103 (West side) 03/10/77 No.98 Elmtree Farmhouse II Farmhouse, now without a farm. c1760 with a mid-C19 extension added to the east side. The west front faces the garden. Brick and flint, roughcast and colourwashed. Pantile roofs. Lobby entrance plan. 2 storeys in 3 bays. Central door behind a late C20 conservatory. The muntin and rail door forms six incised panels, of which the upper pair are glazed. Reeded timber surround with roundels in the upper corners under a flat moulded hood. Left of the door is an early C19 three-light metal casement, and to the right is a C20 three-light casement. The two first-floor windows are also of 3 lights, but are c1760 casements with glazing bars and timber-frames. Gabled roof with a central ridge stack. Abutting the north gable is a sloping flint and brick extension of 1990. The south gable is lit through a C20 window. Small kneeelers support the gable parapets. The east side extension is of colourwashed brick. 2 storeys. C20 plank door right of centre. One 3/3 sash either side under rendered skewback arches, and 2 identical sashes to the first floor. Gabled roof with internal gable-end stacks, that to the south being a late C20 re-build. INTERIOR. The lobby entrance plan is intact. The west, C18, part has 2 ground-floor rooms each with a chamfered bridging beam. The beam in the south room has nicked tongue stops. The winder staircase is to the east of the stack opposite the main entrance, in the normal C18 lobby-entrance fashion. The north room has a re-built brick fireplace, the south room a C20 tile fireplace. Listing NGR: TM5217990786