Glenholme

Glenholme is a house, designed in 1886 by Milnes & France for Alfred Wallis, a local mill owner. It is built of coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings, has Welsh slate roofs, and plain stone stacks. The house is two storeys high with attics. A single-storey billiard room is located to the left of the south garden front, featuring a canted south end. The central doorway has an overlight and side lights, flanked by single cross casements. To the right is a single four-light cross casement with inserted double doors, and above, two plain sashes. Further to the right is a broad two-storey canted bay window with central glazed doors. The east front has a set-back wing to the left with a 20th-century single-storey replacement conservatory, and above it, a plain sash window. To the right, there is a three-window range, with a central two-storey canted bay window topped with a gable and a two-light mullion window. A single cross casement and single sash are positioned to the right, also topped with a gable and a two-light casement. The north entrance front features two-storey rounded bay windows to the left and centre, each topped with a gable.

The entrance hall contains a Minton tile floor, dado panelling, integral painted historical pictures, and stained glass windows. The staircase hall has a glazed wooden screen with double doors and a fanlight, an arched entrance arch, paper-mache frieze, wooden dado panelling, a three-flight staircase with turned balusters and newels, and a glazed wooden screen leading to service rooms below the stairs. Upstairs, round arched openings and a deeply coved ceiling decorated with plaster swags and a glazed central section are present. A plainer secondary staircase also boasts a Minton tile floor and turned balusters. The former billiard room is adorned with Adam-style plasterwork and stained glass windows. Many original fittings remain throughout the house, including panel doors, door surrounds, and fireplaces with pictorial tiles, some accompanied by fitted cupboards and shelves. Plaster decoration, paper-mache friezes, and fireplaces are found in most rooms. This detached mid-Victorian house is notable for its lavishly decorated interior, which has survived largely intact.