Holt Farmhouse

Holt Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, with some later additions. It is constructed of roughly coursed yellow and grey sandstone with ashlar dressings and has a plain tile roof. The building has an E-plan shape, featuring projecting gabled wings and a central full-height gabled porch. It stands two storeys high with an attic. The farmhouse has a plinth and an integral brick lateral stack at the front, which is off-centre to the right, as well as a large central external stone lateral stack at the rear topped with red brick.

The front has five windows, which include two-light double-chamfered mullioned stone windows and small square attic windows with chamfered brick reveals. The central door to the porch is a 20th-century half-glazed door with a flat-arched lintel, behind which is an old nail-studded boarded door set back, featuring strap hinges. To the left, there is probably a 19th-century lean-to rubble addition with a lateral brick stack. The right-hand return front has two-light windows on the first floor and attic, while the ground floor features a 19th-century three-light framed metal casement, likely replacing an earlier window, as indicated by the dressed stone of the former window in the wall to the left. There is also probably a one-storey and attic wing at the rear, dating from the 18th or 19th century.

Inside, the farmhouse has rectangular panelled timber-framed cross-walls. In the hall, there is an ovolo-moulded spine beam with run-out stops resting on scroll brackets carved from posts, along with a large open fireplace featuring an ogee-stopped chamfered lintel. The interior also includes an old boarded cellar door, an 18th-century corner cupboard with a door that has six raised and fielded panels, and a chamfered doorway leading to an old winder staircase. The first-floor ceiling beam is said to rest on plain brackets carved from posts.