Holden Gate Farmhouse

SE04SE SILSDEN C.P. HOLDEN LANE (east side)

6/147 Holden Gate 27.9.65 Farmhouse

G V II

House. Late C16 or early C17 with added porch initialled and dated "TF TB" 1619 Dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 3-room direct-entry plan with gabled single-storey porch. 3-light double-chamfered mullioned window to parlour; inserted C19 doorway with monolithic jambs; 2-light fire-window, 5-light housebody window. The 2 main windows have hoodmoulds with straight returns and cavetto-moulded mullions. Porch has doorway with cyma-moulded surround, the lintel bearing date and with corners notched perhaps indicating it is re-used; small chamfered light set in gable which is coped with kneelers. The inner door (of porch) has composite jambs and broad stop-chamfered surround. 2-light window to service-end. 1st floor has 2 windows with chamfered surrounds, formerly of 2 lights lacking mullion and, centrally placed, a C19 window with plain stone surrounds. Coped gables with kneelers, that to right preserves lantern finial. 2 stacks to ridge and one other (capped) to right hand corner. Rear has small chamfered lights to 1st floor and added mid-C20 flat-roofed extension out of sympathy. Side walls have a single 2-light double- chamfered mullioned window to ground floor.

Interior: Housebody retains large deep bressumer and stop-chamfered spine beam and floor joists. Other rooms have chamfered beams. 2 king-post trusses, one with groove to the soffit of tie-beam and 6 vertical struts with curved brace to the ridge. The other is open with single angle-struts (set over the bressumer). To the north of the fireplace is a small room with curved inner angle and small chamfered light. It is likely that this originally housed a spiral- staircase, now removed. Here also is a fragment of the original oak panelling. RCHM (England) report.

Listing NGR: SE0662044237