Hollybush Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from the early 17th century, the house is arranged in an L-shape with a rear service wing. The front facade and the left-hand gable end are faced with late 19th-century common brick, while some timber framing is visible at the gable ends. The service wing displays exposed timber framing to the front, plasterwork to the rear, and has a 18th-century brick gable end. The roof is pantiled, with glazed black tiles on the front of the main range. The house has two storeys and an attic, with a 3-cell layout. It has three windows, featuring some late 19th-century tripartite sash windows, alongside older casements, all set within segmental arches. A lobby entrance has a four-panel door. There is one internal chimney stack and a substantial 17th-century external stack to the right, with a large offset of tumbled brickwork; the upper part of this stack has been rebuilt. The service wing has a parapet gable end and three slatted windows. A staircase wing is located to the rear of the main range, containing an original 17th-century dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and newel posts. Sections of the original timber frame remain visible, with close studding in the rear wall at ground floor level. Floor beams are stop-chamfered, and some original doors are present. The service range retains more of the original structure, including some ovolo-moulded mullioned windows. Evidence indicates that this wing may initially have been a detached building.