The Hollies

The Hollies is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early 17th century with later additions and alterations. It features a timber frame with plaster and painted brick infill, and parts have been rebuilt in red brick and dressed limestone blocks, with yellow brick and rubblestone additions. The roof is slate. The main range consists of four framed bays, with a 19th-century gabled addition at a right angle to the left and a half-length outshut to the rear, which has late 20th-century and 19th-century single-storey additions behind. The building is two storeys high. The framing is exposed on the right gable end, displaying square panels with three from the cill to a slightly cambered tie beam, and v-struts from the collar. The gable features two mid-19th-century cast-iron casements on the ground floor and a contemporary cast-iron pivot window above. The main front has one 20th-century casement and one 19th-century casement to the right, located below the eaves and to the right of a lean-to porch that angles with the gabled addition to the left. A prominent ridge stack is located to the left, with twin diagonal brick shafts, and there are further lateral stacks flanking the right gable end, along with a 19th-century brick stack with twin diagonal shafts on the right side of the gabled addition. Inside, there are deep-chamfered ceiling beams with ogee and run-out stops, heavy joists, and a massive infilled inglenook fireplace beneath the ridge stack. The double-purlin roof has queen-strut trusses, which were concealed by wallpaper at the time of the last survey in July 1985.