Holm View

Holm View is a mid-19th century town house constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with stucco dressings and a slate roof. The building faces west onto the High Street and comprises a rectangular front range with a short, rear cross-wing to the south and a long, narrow single-storey range to the north. A detached two-storey former stable block and billiards room, located to the south-east of the house, is not included in the listing due to extensive alterations.

The exterior displays a Georgian classical style, featuring rendered rusticated quoins and a dentilled modillion eaves cornice. The house has two storeys and an attic, arranged over four bays and topped with pitched roof and gable-end chimney stacks that have moulded and dentilled oversailing stone cornices. The attic is lit by two dormers with glazed sides, each set beneath an open pediment supported by consoles. The main entrance features a four-panelled, double-leaf door set within a semicircular arch opening detailed with egg-and-dart enrichment. Original features survive, including decorative brass ring handles, letterboxes and a cast iron doorbell plate, all incorporated into a handsome doorcase with unfluted Corinthian columns on high plinths and a dentilled pediment. To the left of the entrance are three two-over-two pane sash windows within rendered surrounds with console hoods; a matching set of four sash windows are located above.

The rear three-storey cross-wing incorporates a two-storey canted bay window with two-over-two pane sashes and dentilled cornices. A semicircular arch doorway to the right gives access to double-leaf panelled doors with glazed upper panels. The rear elevation of the main range displays sash windows with margin lights on the ground and first floors, and two smaller sashes above. The projecting, single-storey range, visible on an 1886 Ordnance Survey map, has been rendered and now contains new windows and a new door.

The interior, limited to the hall, staircase and one room, features an Art Nouveau cast iron fireplace and an elaborate modillion cornice decorated with waterleaf and bead-and-reel mouldings in the entrance hall. A panelled archway with plasterwork swag leads to a dogleg staircase, which has a panelled spandrel, an open string with carved tread ends, and two stick balusters per tread supporting a scrolled handrail. The hall and first-floor landing benefit from elaborate tessellated floors in blues and browns, bordered by a guilloche and a wide band of scrolled foliage. A wide, fitted sideboard with panelled doors and consoles is located on the landing. The rear (east) ground-floor room retains a moulded cornice, a wide frieze with a delicate foliate design, a round ceiling rose with acanthus leaf decoration, and panelled window shutters.