Holywell Farmhouse, Byre And Carthouse

Holywell Farmhouse, byre, and carthouse is a late 17th-century building with alterations dated 1774 above the door. It is constructed of roughly-coursed sandstone, featuring quoins and ashlar dressings. The roof is covered with 20th-century tiles and stone flags, and has stone gable copings along with stone and brick chimneys. The structure has two storeys; the farmhouse on the left has four windows, while the byre on the right has three. There is a one-storey, one-bay pent extension on the left and a cart-house on the right.

The farmhouse, with quoins on the right that are keyed into the byre, has a door in a plain stone surround located in the second bay, with the door lintel incised with "TM 1774." The windows feature similar surrounds to the six-pane sashes in horizontal windows, including one above the door. The byre on the right has a flat-Tudor-arched door in the first bay with stop-chamfered jambs and a chamfered square-headed surround for a door on the right. Above, there are three small square boarded openings with flat stone sills and lintels. The vehicle entrance has a keyed segmental-headed surround with boarded doors in the right extension, which is topped by a flat-stone-coped stepped parapet that slopes from left to right. The house roof includes end chimneys, and the copings rest on curved kneelers, while the left extension has a stone-flagged roof.

The rear elevation features a stair tower with intersecting tracery in a round-headed window, flanked by outshuts, and side steps leading to a wide loft door under a wooden lintel.

Inside, there is a wide segmental-arched chamfered chimney opening, a dog-leg stair with a ramped handrail on wide stick balusters, and a half landing. The doors are two-panel with a central bead and original H hinges, and the door from the kitchen to the main room has a pegged moulded frame holding eight panels.

In front of the house, there are stone steps, with the bottom step appearing to be a re-used lintel incised with "T J M."