Holiday Farm House

Holiday Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the mid-16th century, with significant rebuilding and extensions in the early 17th century, a further extension and alterations in the 19th century, and alterations in the 20th century. The house is timber-framed and plastered with steeply pitched machine-tiled roofs. Originally a 3-cell cross-entry plan, it features a jettied parlour end and a service end that was rebuilt as a 3-bay parlour cross wing. It has a 1-story and attic section and a 2-story and attic cross wing. The entrance is in its original cross-entry position, to the left of centre, with a 19th-century lean-to outshut and a part-glazed 6-panelled door. There are 20th-century 1, 2, and 4-light metal frame casement windows, and a 2-light gabled dormer over the hall. The cross wing to the left has a round light in the attic. Notably, it exhibits exposed plates and double purlins. The parlour is to the rear, with a ridge stack in the central bay; the cross-quadrate shaft has been rebuilt, and the left return is cased in 20th-century brick. An axial ridge stack is located on the main range to the right of centre, between the hall and the original parlour. A 2-bay 19th-century service addition to the front of the original parlour incorporates glazing bar casements, and a 20th-century external stack is on the right return. A half-glazed door provides access to the main range. The right-end jetty has large brackets and a ground-floor margin-glazed window. Attached to the rear right is a 1-story service outbuilding with a stable door. The rear gable end of the 17th-century parlour is brick-cased with casements having cambered heads, and an attic round light. The main range has a catslide roof over an open verandah with arched braces from timber uprights. Two 2-light gabled dormers are present. Inside, the timber frame is largely concealed. The original parlour features an arched brace to the cross axial binding beam. The 17th-century parlour and chamber have close studding, bar and indent stop chamfered binding beams, and stop chamfered mid-rail.