The Hollies

The Hollies is a house that was formerly a coaching inn, built around 1730, with a 17th-century service wing. It features a timber frame that is plastered, and has steeply pitched roofs covered with glazed pantiles. The building is large and shaped like an L, consisting of two storeys and attics. The front has five windows and a high brick plinth, with a central entrance that includes a six raised panelled door framed by an architrave with a floating pediment. The windows are early 19th-century sashes with four panes over four panes, and they have shutters. The eaves are boxed, and there are three dormers with two lights each, topped with shallow pedimented leaded heads. The end stacks are extruded with offsets and were raised in the 19th century using white brick with red brick quoining. There is also a 19th-century conservatory on the right gable end.

The right side of the building leads to the four-bay service wing, which has four and six-light ovolo moulded mullion and transom part opening casements. There are two entrances: a two-panelled door on the left and a boarded door in a 19th-century trellised porch on the right. This wing features a gabled dormer and an axial ridge stack similar to the front range. The rear gable end has red brick facing from the 18th or 19th century, with an internal end stack. At the back of the main range, there is a single-storey outshut with a slate roof from the 19th century, and in the inner angle, a second outshut was raised to two storeys in the 20th century. Behind the service wing, there is an early six-light chamfered mullioned window and a 19th-century cross casement.

Inside, there is an early 18th-century open well staircase featuring turned balusters, an open string with cheek pieces, and a moulded and ramped handrail. The interior also includes simple 18th-century cornices and panelled doors. The service wing has some exposed studding and straight tension braces, as well as stop-chamfered axial binding beams. The roofs are of the butt purlin type with collars to the principal rafters.