Holme Cottage

Holme Cottage is a house dating from around 1700, with later alterations and an addition from the late 18th century. The house is constructed from massive, coursed and squared sandstone blocks exhibiting herringbone tooling, with a plain tile roof and a brick integral end stack. The plan is an end baffle-entry configuration, aligned east-west and facing south, with a stable attached to the east, aligned on the same axis. The house occupies the left-hand side, with the former stable to the right.

The main house is two storeys in height with a gable-lit attic. It has two windows on the front elevation, featuring 3-light chamfered mullioned windows on the first floor – with 20th-century casements taking the place of earlier mullioned windows on the ground floor. A boarded door with strap hinges is positioned on the left-hand side. The former stable, now a garage and house extension, is two storeys high and roughly three bays wide, with a tall glazing bar casement on the ground floor to the right and a 20th-century casement to the left, with central garage doors.

Inside, the house retains chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, indicating the position of a former room partition, and a chamfered bresummer to an inglenook, which contains a smaller stone fireplace with a corbelled lintel. Originally, the staircase extended up the north side of the stack. On the first floor, a massive chimney breast is constructed of stepped ashlar blocks. A central roof truss displays an exposed tie beam marking the location of a formerly central doorway, now infilled, with wattle and daub studwork concealed beneath.

The house is situated on a sandstone outcrop, where steps have been cut leading to the front door. Three carved heads, likely of medieval origin, are embedded in the rock and may have been brought from the site of a nearby castle.