Holm Oak House

Holm Oak House is a house dating from the mid 16th century, with possible origins in the 15th century. It was altered and extended around 1600, and subsequently altered in the early 19th century. The house is timber-framed, with plaster infill, and has a thatched roof. It may have originally been an open hall house, with four unequal bays, potentially having a smoke hood in the largest upper bay. A stack and a two-bay parlour were added later.

The ground floor has a main entrance at the lower end of the hall, featuring a roughly 1800 part glazed and part raised six-panelled door within a Doric doorcase with fluted pilasters, entablature and pediment. To the left, in the original cross-entry position, is a recessed raised six-panelled door with shaped brackets to a simple hood. There are also two- and three-light glazing-bar casements with hoodboards, some with metal frames. Above, on the first floor, are dual three-light part-opening casements over the hall, flanked by part-opening four-light casements. An axial ridge stack between the hall and parlour has chamfered arrises. The left end has a secondary hip to the roof with a 19th-century external stack and oven outshuts. At the rear, a boarded cross-entry door, three-light metal-frame casements, and on the first floor over the parlour, an 18th-century ovolo mullioned four-light lattice leaded window are found. A low, one-storey and attic backhouse, dating from the 18th century, extends behind the service bay, with exposed plates and purlins.

Inside, the cross entry is located in the broad bay, featuring reset late 17th-century panelling from a screen. A chamfered four-centred arched doorway leads into the service bay. The original stairs are at the rear of the service bay. Exposed studding, of large scantling, is visible. The hall has chamfered cross axial binding beams, joists, storey posts, and a fireplace bressumer, with traces of diamond mullioned window openings. The added stack bay has rectangular mullioned two-light window openings. The parlour features close studding, stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams, joists, and a fireplace bressumer, along with recessed ovolo mullioned three-light window openings. On the first floor, reverse cranked and reverse curved arched braces are visible in the walling, with cranked arched braces to cambered tie beams. Towards the upper end of the hall chamber, a truss from the presumed smoke hood has been removed, and there are inserted stop-chamfered axial binding beams. The parlour chamber has cranked arched braces in the walling and a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam. The roof over the first four bays is a queen post roof with cambered collars and longitudinal arched braces. The parlour roof has butt purlins with arched windbraces.