The Holt

The Holt is a large house, now serving as a girls' school. It dates from the late 16th century and underwent extensions and alterations in the mid-17th century and late 19th century. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features some tile hanging, topped by tiled gabled roofs. It has a U-shaped plan with several gabled extensions and stands two storeys high with attics. The house is adorned with four large chimneys that have rectangular bases, diamond shafts, and offset heads.

Most of the windows are 19th-century sashes, with some featuring glazing bars in the upper sash. The north front has a plinth and a stone string course at the second-floor cill level. It showcases three gables of varying sizes, each with circular pierced and moulded bargeboards. There are two angular bays on the first floor, both with moulded and dentilled cornices leading to roofs. The left bay is supported by a large moulded stone bracket at its centre. The windows are a mix of 19th-century sashes and casements, irregularly spaced and featuring rubbed brick arches on both the ground and first floors, with terra cotta cills throughout.

To the right, there is a 19th-century extension that includes a dentilled and moulded terra cotta string and a dentilled, painted wooden eaves cornice. An angled dormer is located at the corner. The entrance features a six-panel door, with the top two panels glazed, positioned roughly in the centre under the second bay. Above the door is a stone lintel inscribed with the dates 1648 and 1886.

Inside, there is a fine open well staircase, likely dating from 1648, which comprises four flights with square newels topped with drop finials, splat balusters, a moulded handrail, and a heavily moulded closed string. The former morning room, now the deputy head's room, contains early 18th-century panelling with a small dentilled and moulded cornice, along with an overmantel featuring semi-circular niches on either side, the left one being larger with three serpentine shelves. Additionally, some 17th-century and early 18th-century panelling can be found in the entrance hall. The roof is a simple coupled oak structure with some heavy rafters.