Holly Cottage

Holly Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century, with full-height in-line additions from the early 20th century at each end. The building is timber framed and rendered, topped with a concrete-pantiled roof, and consists of two storeys and an attic. It has a two-cell, lobby entry plan and features 20th-century casement windows without glazing bars and a boarded door. There is an axial chimney stack with a rendered shaft and two mid-20th-century rooflights at the rear.

Inside, the cottage retains a largely intact four-bay frame of good quality, with arched braces on the outside face of the studs and main posts that have deep jowls. There is evidence of several original windows, including two in the ground floor north room that have mutilated ogee-moulded mullions. Behind the stack on the ground floor is a blocked original doorway. The ground floor south room features roll-moulded heads to the storey posts and one bay of exposed joists set flat, with roll-moulded corners. The opposite room has chamfered ceiling joists with bar stops, and the upper floor has exposed joisted ceilings. There are three good open fireplaces with original lintels, with the one on the upper floor being a later addition. The roof has clasped purlins with two-way arched wind-bracing. A newel stair beside the stack was removed in the 20th century.