Holdhurst Farm Cottages

Nos 1 and 2 Holdhurst Farm Cottages are a hall house that was extended and subsequently divided into two dwellings. The original structure dates from the late 15th and early 16th centuries, with a cross wing added in the 17th century to the right side. Further alterations and extensions occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries to the front of the building.

The house is timber-framed and has a mix of external finishes. The central range is clad in whitewashed brick, while the ends of the ground floor are finished with whitewashed roughcast and fishscale tile hanging above. The roof is tiled and extends down in a catslide formation to the rear. The house has two storeys, with a prominent stack on the right end of the cross wing, a larger multiple stack to the rear right of the centre, and smaller stacks to the rear of the left wing and the left of the left hand wing.

The windows are largely 19th and 20th century casements. The first floor of the centre range features three windows, along with a three-light casement to the left and a four-light casement to the right. The ground floor centre range contains three windows of varying sizes, with a five-light window to the right. There are half-glazed doors in the right and left wings, with a plastic porch covering the right one and a window and metal casement window placed diagonally across the re-entrant angle.

The return front on the right side exhibits some exposed timber framing with brick infilling, including a four-light ovolo-moulded window to the centre. A pentice extension to the rear of two framed bays includes a planked door and a casement window.

Internally, much of the original timber frame has been covered or removed, except for inserted floors across the centre part of the house. In the ground floor centre room, large ceiling joists and spine beams are exposed, featuring lambs tongue stops. A square panelled frame is visible on the right end, surrounding a newel staircase. The first floor reveals more exposed framing with arched bracing, partly truncated by doorcases and a thick partition framing in the centre-right area. Two construction phases are visible on the first floor, approximately 6 inches apart, displaying the jowled post and arched brace of the original range towards the centre. In the roof space on the right half, a plain crown post supports a truncated collar purlin, with diagonal bracing from the post to the tie beam and one arched brace from the crown post to the collar purlin, showing signs of soot, while the other brace has been removed.