Holmdale

Holmdale is a country house, later divided, built in 1873 by G.E. Street and Son for their own use, with subsequent extensions by Barton Webb. The construction incorporates snecked sandstone ashlar to the ground floor of much of the house, especially the central tower, and decorative timber framing above with red brick infilling—some in a herringbone pattern, some rendered and incised with floral decoration to the entrance porch. The roof is tiled, with ridge cresting and fishscale tile hanging to the gables. It is L-shaped, with a square tower in the angle of the L. The house is two storeys high, featuring tall ribbed and corbelled stacks on the ends and ridge of the roofs, with octagonal stacks to the garden front. Windows are leaded casements, some wood-framed, some stone-framed, all with decorative leading in hexagonal and geometric patterns.

The entrance front is characterised by double gabled bays on the right, with leaded casement windows on each floor. A battlemented tower is located in the re-entrant angle of the range, with corbelled eaves and irregularly dressed stone fenestration. A triple-gabled range projects to the left, featuring regular casement fenestration, and a door on the ground floor to the right. The main entrance is centrally located within a gabled, bargeboarded porch decorated with incised rendered floral motifs.

The garden front displays two square gabled bays to the right, with moulded bargeboards and coved bases. Stone-dressed mullioned and transomed windows break through the plinth string course on the ground floor. Each gabled bay has a single first-floor casement window within braced, decorative framing. The central and left portions of the garden front have similar fenestration.

The right-hand return front features a large, round bay to the left, set under a timber gable, with five stone-dressed ground-floor lights with trefoil heads. A recessed bay has coved eaves, and a porch recess is located on the ground floor at the centre. Three ground-floor windows are present to the right, and an angle bay rises through two storeys with trefoil-headed lights. A large gabled bay is located at the end.

Interior panelling and some original fittings remain.