Holme Hall

SE 90 NW HOLME HOLME LANE (south side)

3/6 Holme Hall - 6.11.67 - II

House, now 2 dwellings. Late C17-early C18 east front with later C18 and C19 rear wings. Early portion probably for John Morley. Coursed limestone rubble, colourwashed, with ashlar dressings. Rear wings of brick, and of coursed limestone rubble with-brick dressings. Slate roofs, brick stacks. 4 rooms wide, 1 room deep, with entrance hall second from right and stairhall to left. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Rubble plinth, quoins. Central entrance has plain beaded ashlar surround with early C20 panelled door under plain rectangular overlight in wooden architrave with hood. 12-pane sashes with wooden architraves in beaded ashlar surrounds with projecting keystones. Some windows have thick glazing bars. Ground floor left window lengthened in 1940s, with ashlar surround, cill and glazing bars. Moulded wooden cornice, modillions supporting wooden gutter. Hipped roof with lead flashings. 2 axial stacks: C20 to left, larger rendered brick stack to right with projecting bands. Left and right returns have 12-pane sashes, those to right with ashlar surrounds, and cogged brick eaves cornices. Left return wing forms secondary garden front: 2 storey, 3-bay wing with entrance on right. C20 part-glazed door with side and over-lights beneath projecting arched wooden porch. 12-pane flush sashes under stucco cambered arches, with blind central window panel. Cogged brick eaves cornice, stone coped gable with shaped kneelers. Lower contemporary single-bay extension to left with similar windows and details. Interior of front range contains a fine open-well staircase with boldly-moulded string, column-on-vase-and-bulb balusters and moulded handrail; fielded panel dado ground floor right; panelled doors and window-shutters throughout. Barrel-vaulted limestone rubble cellar. Holme Hail was for centuries the home of the Morleys, a prominent Catholic family.

Listing NGR: SE9091406867