Alder House

Alder House is a house located on Holden Lane in Bolton-by-Bowland, noted for its historical significance. The building is constructed from sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof. It has a double-pile plan with end stacks and a central three-storey gabled porch. The house stands three storeys tall, with windows that have an inner cyma moulding and outer chamfer.

On either side of the porch, there are 8-light mullioned and transomed windows on the ground and first floors, each with a hood. The second floor features 3-light stepped mullioned windows on both sides. The upper storeys of the porch extend over a moulded string. The first floor includes a 6-light mullioned and transomed window with a stepped head, a segmental head on the lower central light, and a hood with spiral stops. The second floor has a stepped mullioned window with segmental heads and a hood with spiral stops.

The outer doorway is chamfered with a shaped lintel and a date plaque above, along with a hood featuring spiral stops. The inner doorway is cyma moulded with a Tudor arch. The porch and the right-hand gables have copings with footstones. At the rear of the house, there is a 5-light mullioned window and two cross windows, which have inner ovolo and outer chamfer, along with a one-light ovolo-moulded window with a shaped head, and several windows that incorporate re-used 17th-century dressings.

Inside, there is a stair with two flights of stone around a closed well, which continues to the second floor as an open-well closed-string stair with square newels and turned balusters. The first floor features oak partitioning and doors with raised and fielded panels. The only visible roof truss at the time of the survey has an interrupted tie beam above floor level, which is braced downwards to a main floor joist.