The Elm Cottage public house is located at the junction of Chruch Street and Morton Terrace in Gainsborough. It has a long history as an inn. It originally had a thatched roof and whitewashed walls and probably started life as a mud and stud cottage in the eighteenth century. This was refronted with a mock Tudor half-timbered exterior covering in the 1930s. A granite horse water trough use to stand outside the pub, but this now sits in the grounds of Richmond House (see PRN54839) and it being used as a planter. {1}