Little Holmside

Little Holmside is a house dated 1668 for Timothy Whittingham, as noted in the inscription above the door. It underwent alterations and the addition of a right wing in the mid-18th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings, and it features a stone-flagged roof. It has an L-plan layout, three storeys high, with four bays, the fourth bay being wider. The façade is symmetrical before the alterations to the right bay.

The entrance is a Tudor-arched door located between the second and third bays, framed by a hollow-chamfered surround within an ogee-moulded square-headed panel, topped with a label mould that bears the low-relief inscription: "TIMY WHITTINGHAM HANC/ DOMUM EDIFICABAT ANNO 1668/ ET ILLAM NON INDIGNE VO/ CABAT LITTLE HOLMSIDE." The first bay features 4-light windows on the ground and first floors, although three of the mullions are missing. Other windows have 2 lights, all are stone-mullioned with recessed single chamfers, and some show evidence of vertical iron bars. There is vertical-elliptical moulded decoration to the left of the first floor.

The right bay has been altered to two storeys, matching the height of the other three, and features sash-window architraves, although only fragments of the sashes and glazing bars remain. The roof has left gable coping on moulded kneelers, while the right end is hipped. The left end, along with the ridge and rear gable of the right wing, has corniced ashlar chimneys.

The 18th-century right return is symmetrical, two storeys high with five bays. It has steps leading up to a central door with a lugged architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a swan-neck pediment containing a blank panel. All windows have architraves.

At the rear, there is a two-storey, two-bay outshut under a catslide roof, featuring stone-mullioned windows, one of which has been inserted. Similar windows are found on the rear of the main building. The property was empty and derelict at the time of the survey.