Holyoak Farmhouse

Holyoak Farmhouse is a timber-framed farmhouse dating from the early and mid 16th century, originally built in three sections. It is a two-story building with a three-cell plan. The exterior is timber-framed and roughcast; on the west side, the upper story has a long-wall jetty displaying exposed joist-ends and a bressumer. The thatched roof has axial and gable chimneys built of 19th-century red brick. Early 20th-century casement windows are present. A lean-to extension with a pantiled roof contains a boarded entrance door.

The central section of the house consists of a two-bay hall with a chamber above. It includes an altered lintelled open fireplace and previously had a roof with a coupled-rafter or crownpost form. Later in the 16th century, the house was extended in both directions. All phases of construction feature heavy, unchamfered floor joists, close studding, and a jettied upper floor. The roof contains a 16th-century wind-braced clasped purl.

Until around 1960, the building functioned as a dairy range, separate from the original main farmhouse which stood on the west side. The name of the farmstead is linked to a chained Bible that was formerly attached to a tree stump, situated near the north-west corner of the granary-cartshed, approximately 30 meters north of the farmhouse.