The Hollins

This is a late medieval house, undergoing several phases of construction, with substantial alterations and additions in the 17th century (possibly 1688) and the mid-19th century. It has been divided into three dwellings. The house is timber-framed and encased in 19th-century coursed squared stone, with a stone slate roof.

The main block is a two-storey hall, originally with a rear aisle, and features a projecting wing to the right and a further cross-wing to the left. The south-east front has three distinct sections. The left section (No. 43) has one first-floor window. The central section (No. 45) has three first-floor windows and a fourth in a projecting two-storey pent roof porch to the right, which leads onto a dais. The right section (No. 47) projects further forward and has four first-floor windows. The windows and doors are 19th-century, with plain stone surrounds; the doorways of Nos. 43 and 47 have cornices, and the door of No. 43 leads into the original cross-passage. There are plain gutter brackets. The roof is hipped at the left end and the left end of No. 47. Various 19th-century stacks are visible.

Inside No. 45, a tall fireplace with a stop-chamfered moulded surround, a moulded cornice with pendants inscribed 'R' '16' 'T'./88, is located at the left end, backing onto the cross-passage. In No. 43, the cross-wing is separated from the passage by a partition wall of several courses of stone supporting plank and muntin panelling with close-studded walling above; mortices in the wall plate suggest the hall was floored over before the 1688 fireplace was inserted. The wing was formerly subdivided by a timber cross-wall. On the first floor of No. 43, close-studded timber-framing is visible in the front and back walls. A stone wall with a double-chamfered mullion window is located on the right side of the wing at the back, looking into the central area of the hall, suggesting that the hall was not originally this deep. Indications suggest a former gable once existed in this area. The roof contains two king-post trusses over the hall (one with A struts) and two over the wing. Mortices in the rafters adjacent to the main stack indicate the former presence of a firehood cap.