Holmes Farmhouse

Holmes Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th or 17th century, with a later 17th-century wing and extensive additions and alterations from the 19th century. It is timber framed with brick infill and brick walling in English garden wall bond, topped with a plain tile roof. The building is two storeys high and follows a baffle entry plan.

The front of the house features a recessed gabled section on the right, which is part of the earlier range. This section has two sets of five small framing cells with angle braces on either side. There is a two-light 19th-century casement window on the right, and to the left on the ground floor, there is a 20th-century lean-to outshut. On the first floor, there is a central two-light window, and the gable is small framed with a V-strut at the apex.

The later 17th-century extension on the left has a two-light cambered-headed window on the ground floor and a similar window above on the first floor. The right side of the building features a timber corner-post on the left with an angle brace, next to 19th-century walling that includes patches of renewed 20th-century brickwork. There are also a single-light window and a three-light window on this side.

On the left side, there is a projecting gabled wing with a two-light casement window on the first floor. The left flank of this wing has a cambered-headed doorway on the left and a two-light casement window to the right, also with a cambered head and tile sill. The first floor features another two-light casement window. To the left of this wing, in the earlier range, there is a two-light ground floor window on the right and a two-light window above it on the first floor, set in a gablet. There is a door to the left with a 19th-century gabled porchway above and a blocked ground floor window to the left of this.

The roof is covered in plain tiles with swept valleys, and there is a central chimney stack on the ridge above the doorway. Inside, the farmhouse has chamfered ceiling beams in the parlour and an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. There are 18th-century plank doors on both the ground and first floors.