Elm Farm was originally built sometime in the 15th century and exposed woodwork in the drawing room has been dated back to the 16th century. The house was modified in the early 19th century with the addition of the French facade and as a farm, all the lands rolling back to the South Downs originally belonged to the house. Early records show just a few houses covering what was mostly farmland, although the pub, The Lamb (200 metres along the road) also dates back to the 15th century. It is rumoured that there were once smuggling tunnels under the house but although there is a large cellar, we have been unable to find evidence of them.
As a family living abroad, we started letting the house to weekly guests in the late 1990's, using it as regularly as possible for our own family vacations. That's why to this day, we keep it fully equipped and in excellent repair at all times.

In the Drawing Room, the 3rd reception room where guests usually sit and read and lookout into the garden, you will find on your left, the exposed beams which have been dated back to the late 16th or early 17th century. The vertical woodwork made in local oak was once an open window as the use of glass was limited to palaces and churches at the time... not common in farm houses.