Little Holmside

LANCHESTER GREEN LANE NZ 14 NE (East side)

6/89 Little Holmside 17/1/67 (formerly listed as Little Holmside Farm) Holmside New Hall on map)

II*

House. Dated 1668 for Timothy Whittingham in inscription over door; mid-C18 alterations and addition of right wing. Coursed squared sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings; right return coursed squared sandstone; stone- flagged roof. L-plan, 3 storeys, 4 bays, the fourth wider; symmetrical before alterations to right bay. Tudor-arched door, between second and third bays, has hollow-chamfered surround in ogee-moulded square-headed panel, with label mould over low-relief inscription: TIMY WHITTINGHAM HANC/ DOMUM EDIFICABAT ANNO 1668/ ET ILLAM NON INDIGNE VO/ CABAT LITTLE HOLMSIDE. 4-light windows in first bay on ground and first floors, with 3 mullions missing; other windows have 2 lights, all stone-mullioned with recessed single chamfers; evidence of vertical iron bars in some lights. Vertical-elliptical moulded decoration at left of first floor.

Right bay altered to 2 storeys, of same height as previous 3, with sash-window architraves; only fragments of sashes, and of glazing bars in other lights, survive.

Roof has left gable coping on moulded kneelers; right end hipped. Left end, and right wing ridge and rear gable, corniced ashlar chimneys.

C18 right return: symmetrical; 2 storeys, 5 bays; steps up to central door with lugged architrave, pulvinated frieze and swan-neck pediment containing blank panel. Architraves to all windows.

Rear 2-storey, 2-bay outshut under catslide roof has stone-mullioned windows, one inserted; similar windows on rear of main building.

Empty and derelict at time of survey.

Source: J.W. Fawcett, The Parish Registers of All Saints' Church, Lanchester. Satley 1909, p.x.

Listing NGR: NZ1997549276