Holt End Farmhouse Holt End Grange

House

Two adjoining houses dating from the mid-17th century onwards, altered at various periods.

Holt End Grange

Dating from circa the late 16th or early 17th century, extended and altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. Timber-framed with brick infill, the front and south end are faced in brick with a brick extension at the rear. The building has a plain tile roof with gabled ends and a brick rear lateral stack.

The building follows a 3-room plan. The centre room is heated from a 19th-century lateral stack at the back, which is probably the result of 18th and 19th-century alterations when an outshut was added at the rear. The structure rises to one storey and attic, with three gabled dormers. The east front has five windows fitted with 20th-century casements and a 20th-century brick porch to the left of centre.

The timber frame is exposed in the north gable end, showing four by four square panels with a tie-beam and collar truss. Above the collar are V-struts and a yoke at the apex. At the rear, the roof is carried down as a catslide over the outshut.

Interior: The building features chamfered axial and cross beams. The centre room contains a 19th-century brick fireplace and oven inscribed "A.Lely and Son, Redditch". The attic chambers are ceiled but open to the roof timbers, which include three trusses. The southernmost truss has a king-post and struts, while the centre and right trusses have queen-struts and collars, with the centre truss bearing a yoke at the apex. The roof structure includes large trenched purlins and a diagonal ridge-piece.

Holt End Farmhouse

Dating from circa the late 17th century, altered in the 20th century. The building is constructed in red brick laid in English garden wall bond, with a plain tile roof with gabled ends. The east end gable is timber-framed. The eaves feature a dogtooth brick cornice and platband, with a brick axial stack.

The building follows a 3-room plan comprising a centre hall or kitchen, a parlour on the right, and a smaller room on the left, which was probably originally unheated. The centre hall and parlour are heated from an axial stack with back-to-back fireplaces. A winder staircase is positioned to the side of the stack.

The structure comprises two storeys with three windows on the north front, all fitted with 20th-century casements in segmental-headed openings. The platband is mostly obscured by a 20th-century pentice. There is a panelled door to the left of centre and a gabled dormer on the left. The eaves cornice and platband continue around the ends and at the back. The rear elevation features 20th-century casements, an outshut at the centre, and a porch on the right, which contains an 18th-century 2-panel door inside.

Interior: The building features axial and cross-beams with ogee stops and exposed joists. The centre room has a large brick fireplace with an unchamfered timber lintel. Much of the original joinery survives, including plank doors in the attic and some 18th-century 2-panel and fielded panel doors. A small chamber over the left end contains a re-used moulded ceiling beam. The winder staircase has simple balustrades. The attics are ceiled with large purlins exposed.