Holton Hall

Holton Hall is a small country house dating from the early 18th century, with significant alterations and additions made in the late 18th century. The building features stuccoed brickwork and hipped slate roofs with lead and tile dressings. Originally designed in a square plan of three by three bays, it was later extended with projecting bays at the front and rear, as well as an additional bay on the left side.

The house is two storeys tall with an attic, showcasing a front with a first-floor band and a plain eaves course. It has four bays, with the end bays projecting; the left bay has a bowed end, while the right bay features a wider facetted bay. The bays project on both floors. The central entrance consists of a 19th-century half-glazed double door with a blank overlight, flanked by a single glazing bar sash on the right and a small square light on the left. Each side bay contains single glazing bar sashes with semi-circular fanlight heads, and the left bay also has single glazing bar sashes on the facetted side walls. The first floor includes six glazing bar sashes and a small reset 19th-century sliding sash. The roof is adorned with three fixed light glazing bar dormers.

Inside, the hall features a late 18th-century elliptical arch, above which is a 16th-century plaster panel in high relief depicting Orpheus in the Underworld. The dog leg stair has a carved string, plain balusters, a moulded pearwood handrail, and fluted newels. There are two late 18th-century marble fireplaces, and all original doors maintain their late 18th-century architraves and panels. The principal rooms are enhanced by moulded cornices. Evidence of the original square plan can be seen in the variations in brickwork between the earlier and later sections, the presence of a first-floor band in the side wall of the existing service range, which was formerly an external feature, and the differences in ridge height and roof timbers inside.