Holywell House

BRANCEPETH HOLYWELL NZ 23 NE (North side) 6/9 Holywell House 5/8/81 (formerly listed as Former Holywell Farmhouse, including abutting cottages) II Farmhouse, now private house. Mid-late C18 of several builds possibly incorporating C17 core; C19 and C20 alterations. Narrow hand-made brick in irregular English garden wall bond; coursed rubble rear wing. Renewed pantiled roof on main section and Welsh slate roof on cottage. Brick chimney stacks. Main block 3 + 2 + 3 bays with added 2-bay cottage at right. Band between storeys and fragment of straight joint with stone quoins to right of centre. Openings under rubbed-brick flat arches. Replaced doors in third and fifth bays. Mainly replaced 12-pane sashes but paired sashes, in enlarged openings, between the 2 doorways. Cottage at right originally one storey, heightened in C19, has one 12-pane sash with stone lintel and sill; other openings altered. Continuous steeply-pitched roof with swept eaves. End and 2 ridge stacks. Tumbled-in brickwork on left gable. Gabled, 2-storey rubble wing, on centre rear of main block, has scattered sashes. Added similar brick wing at right. One-storey range of ancillary buildings, at right-angles on left bay of cottage, and altered farmbuildings, on right return of cottage, are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ2502137539