Holme Priory

Holme Priory is a large detached house with origins in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, originally a smaller house that now forms the kitchen. It was significantly enlarged around 1770 and 1800, and partly remodelled in the 1840s, through successive generations of the Bond family. The original core of the house is constructed from ironstone and limestone rubble, some parts plastered. The roof is a mix of pantiles and stone slates, with brick stacks.

The house has two storeys and attics. A single-storey lean-to projects, featuring a hipped tiled roof. An entrance door is part-glazed. On the ground floor is one three-light mullioned window with arched lights. The first floor has one casement window and one horizontally sliding sash window, both with glazing bars. A modern dormer window is visible in the attic.

To the east of the original block is an 19th-century range built of brick, with a tiled roof and stone eaves courses. To the west is a three-storey brick extension with a pyramidal slate roof, likely from the 18th century, although possibly incorporating earlier fabric. This extension has a three-light timber window with lead lights on the ground floor, and blocked windows on the first and second floors. An attic dormer is topped with a pediment and a hoist remains visible at second floor level.

The main 18th-century building has rendered walls and a hipped slate roof, with rendered stacks. The south elevation is distinguished by a moulded cornice and a parapet above. Rusticated quoins and a plat band at first-floor level are also present. A central 19th-century porch, rendered with rusticated quoins, features a doorway with a moulded surround, keystone, and a balustraded parapet, as well as a part-glazed door. Four double-hung sash windows with moulded surrounds are on the ground floor, with similar windows on the first floor, also featuring glazing bars. A central round-headed window completes the first floor elevation.

Inside, the kitchen retains a large fireplace, now blocked, and a chamfered lintel. The dining room, west of the kitchen, has deep, chamfered ceiling beams. Rooms in the 18th-century wings have carved 18th-century fireplace surrounds and plaster cornices, alongside later 19th-century details. The staircase appears to have been renewed in the 19th century and features a cut string, twisted balusters, and carved spandril brackets. The property is enclosed by brick garden walls, with a walled garden to the west.