Holdhurst Farm Cottages

TQ 03 NW CRANLEIGH ALFOLD ROAD

5/233 Nos 1 and 2 Holdhurst Farm Cottages

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Hall house, extended and divided in two. Late C15/early C16, with C17 cross wing to right and C19 and C20 alterations and extensions to front. Timber framed, clad in whitewashed brick to centre range, whitewashed roughcast cladding on ground floor ends with fishscale tile hanging above. Plain tiled roofs, extending down in catslide to rear. Two bay hall to centre with right hand bay truncated and rebuilt as cross wing in C17, left hand end rebuilt in C17 and both ends extended in C19 to form projecting wings. Two storeys with part tile hung stack to right hand end, on cross wing, and larger multiple stack to rear right of centre; smaller stacks to rear of right hand wing and to left of left hand wing. C19 and C20 fenestration, the majority casements, with three windows across the first floor of the centre range and one 3-light casement to the first floor right, one 4-light window to first floor left. Three ground floor windows to centre range of varying size, that to right of centre of five lights. C20 half-glazed doors in the right hand wing, behind a plastic porch, further half glazed door to left of the left hand wing with adjacent window and large C20 metal casement window placed diagonally across the re-entrance angle. Right hand return front; some framing exposed with brick infilling. Four-light ovolo-moulded window to centre. Pentice extension to rear of two framed bays with large planked door and casement window. Interior: much of the frame has been covered or removed with the exception of the inserted floors across the centre. Large ceiling joists and spine beams are exposed in the ground floor centre room, decorated with lambs tongue stops. Thinner square panel frame exposed to right hand end around a newel staircase. First floor has much exposed framing with arched bracing, part truncated by doorcases and thick partition framing in the centre-right of the first floor. The two builds are exposed, approximately 6 inches apart on the first floor with the jowled post and arched brace of the older range towards the centre. In the roof space to the right hand half is a plain crown post supporting 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, sooted, the other having been removed.

Listing NGR: TQ0495837497