The Hollies

The Hollies is a house that was formerly an inn, dating from the late 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 18th century. It is built of rubble with roughly-shaped quoins and cut tooled dressings, featuring pantile roofs and stone slates at the eaves and on the rear outshut. The house has two storeys and three bays, with the central bay partially behind a lobby. It includes a 20th-century casement window in a gabled half-dormer above, a left bay with 4-pane sash windows, and a right bay with a 6-pane fixed casement and a 12-pane sash above, all set in raised surrounds. The gables are coped with end stacks, one of which was heightened in the 20th century.

The sitting-room block has 19th-century canted bays with 2- and 4-pane sashes and a flat leaded top on the right return. It also features coped gables with moulded kneelers and an end stack that was heightened in the late 19th or 20th century. The lower lobby contains a 6-panel door, with the upper panels glazed, set in a stone surround. The rear elevation of the main part shows an outshut with a boarded door and various windows, all in stone or irregular-block surrounds.

Inside, the original house has walls that are 0.9 metres thick and features two upper-cruck trusses with collar-beams extended to carry purlins, along with a yoke and heavy ridge piece. A cupboard in the living room has an old inn sign re-used in the door, depicting a boot and shoe with the initials GMB and the date 1751. The house was formerly known as the Boot and Shoe Inn, and the detached building on the south side may have been a brewhouse.