Holly Cottages

Holly Cottages is a house that has been converted into a pair of cottages, dating from the mid to late 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble, featuring a dressed sandstone front wall, and has an asbestos tile roof with gabled ends. There are dressed sandstone stacks at the gable ends, with stone weathering; the left stack has a brick shaft, and there is a brick axial stack to the right of center.

The original house had a two-room plan, with a kitchen on the left (northwest) that includes a large gable-end fireplace, and a smaller room on the right (now the center), which was possibly originally unheated. In the late 19th century, a two-storey, one-room plan extension was added to the right end, along with a single-storey outshut on the left end.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window southwest front. The 19th-century windows are two-light casements with horizontal glazing bars, and there are two plank doors near the center. The outshut at the left end is slightly set back and features a plank door on the front. The rear has various small casements with glazing bars and two plank doors.

Inside, the two central rooms from the original house have chamfered cross-beams without stops. The larger left room has a big chamfered stone fireplace with a massive stone lintel and a 19th-century range and oven. The smaller right room has a fireplace with an unchamfered stone lintel and a later cream oven to the right. Between the two rooms is a timber-framed partition that serves as the only truss, featuring a tie-beam with diagonal struts to the collar. The studs above the tie-beam are intact, but those below, between the attic chambers, have been replaced. The head of the doorway is cut into the soffit of the tie-beam, and the trenched purlins appear to have been re-set, with a diagonally-set ridgepiece and most of the common rafters intact. Small grates are present in both chambers, and some 17th-century plank doors remain.