The Hollies

House. Dating from the early to mid-17th century, with alterations in the 19th century, the building is constructed of brick in Flemish bond, with brick dressings, and has a plain tile roof. It is a two-cell lobby-entry house. The building has two stories and a three-window front, with a basement to one side. A narrow lobby includes a newel staircase rising to a loft. An axial brick stack, located behind the stair and breaking the ridge line, is framed by a pair of bridge beams with corner rolls, the stops of which are embedded in the wall plaster. Each ground-floor room has a visible bridge beam. Stone flags are found in one cell. The ground-floor windows have early 19th-century, gauged brick lintels. A painted timber-framed entrance porch with a lean-to roof from the late 19th or early 20th century is present. A brick dentil cornice runs along the front and rear of the roof, and the gable end finishes as a parapet with kneelers; the tumbled-in brickwork of the gable is interrupted by a 20th-century rebuilding of part of the parapet. The rear elevation has a three-window range, along with two single-storey additions and a long, 20th-century roof dormer. The interior includes panelling installed in the early 20th century, with 18th or early 19th-century panels, architraves, and H-L hinges in many rooms. The doors and hinges appear to be from the 20th century, during which older house elements were introduced to the area. The building was once divided into two cottages and formed part of a row, including number 86. Number 85 is set back from number 86, which has a brick facade with a broken joint where it meets the bricks of number 85, suggesting the brickwork postdates number 86. Repairs to the front elevation have used modern bricks, and the entire surface appears to have been cleaned since 1945. Roof structure and floor joists extend into what was formerly the crosswing of number 86 Market Hill.