Holywell Hall

Holywell Hall is a country house with origins in the 17th century, significantly altered in 1732 and the early 19th century. It is constructed of ashlar and coursed limestone rubble, with hipped and ridged slate roofs, raised stone coped gables, and numerous ridge and wall ashlar stacks.

The east front, dating to the early 19th century, presents a two-storey, three-bay ashlar facade. The central bay is recessed and features a plinth, cill band, and cornice. A central tripartite doorway is protected by a Tuscan portico in antis, with a dentillated frieze. Harebell pendants and acanthus leaves decorate the sides of the door. Flanking the portico are single tripartite windows with glazing bar sashes, divided by slender colonettes supporting a plain frieze with a blank segmental head. Above are three further glazing bar sashes. The south front has six bays, with six tall glazing bar sashes on the ground floor, with blank recessed panels above, and six smaller glazing bar sashes on the first floor, set upon a cill band. The west wing, originally from the 17th century, was restored in the 18th century, retaining a deep, steeply pitched roof. It is now two storeys plus an attic, with a tripartite doorway, square columns, and segmental over arch on the south end, above which is a glazing bar sash and a two-light casement. The irregular five-bay south front features a half-glazed door in a plain advanced ashlar surround, flanked by paired windows with similar surrounds, and a further two similar windows and three with plain ashlar surrounds to the first floor. A 17th-century four-centred moulded archway with cornice, now containing an 18th-century six-panel door, is found in the north rear wall. To the north is a service wing constructed around 1760, featuring six bays with two panelled doorways on the ground floor; the doorway to the right has a rusticated surround and four horizontal glazing bar sashes with stepped keyblocks. Above are four Diocletian windows with keyblocks.

The interior includes two scagliola plaster fireplaces, a moulded cornice, urns, an ornate gilded Greek cornice with central fluted paterae, six-panelled doors with fluted surrounds and angle paterae, and full shutters. One room has low relief carving of a lamp on a central plaque. Other features include fluted door surrounds, a moulded acanthus ceiling cornice, fluted paterae surrounded by mythological plaster roundels. The stair hall was remodelled in the early 19th century and features Ionic columns in antis framing a tripartite approach to an imperial stair with a moulded handrail, delicate knopped and fluted balusters arranged three to a tread, and a scrolled open string. The stair also has an oval, top-traceried, Adam-style light. A moulded cornice with a harebell frieze and circular wall plaques with military trophies and swags complete the hall.

Holywell Hall was the seat of the Reynardson family and the 17th-century house was altered and extended following the marriage of Samuel Reynardson in 1732.