Holly Cottage

Holly Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been converted into one house, dating from around the mid 19th century. The building features slatestone rubble walls with slate sills and shallow brick arches, topped by a slurried scantle slate roof with brick chimneys at the gable ends.

Originally, each cottage had one front room, with passages running parallel to the middle that led to stairs and narrow rear service rooms. The right-hand cottage includes an extension that serves as a workshop or fish cellar. The structure is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front facing northwest, with a central window that is blind and painted on. The doorways are located in the middle, separated by a narrow stone pier, and feature 20th-century doors, with the left door being the only one currently in use. The windows are original 16-pane hornless sashes. The workshop on the right has a ground floor doorway on the left with a ledged door, and the first floor is weather boarded with a central window that has vertical glazing bars.

The interior has not been inspected. Holly Cottage is an unspoilt example of a pair of cottages located at the head of the picturesque creek at Coombe, and it is part of a group of mostly little altered late 18th and early to mid 19th century houses.