24, Holders Road

No. 24 Holders Road is an experimental smallholder's dwelling built between 1919 and 1920 for the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. The building features colourwashed cob on a flint and brick sill, topped with a plain tiled roof. It is two storeys high and consists of two bays, with the left bay extended and gabled to the rear. The entrance is off-centre, leading to a stair lobby, with a living room to the left and a kitchen and bathroom at the rear. There is a reeded door and a later glazed porch. The windows are made of sheet glass with concrete lintels. The roof is hipped and sprocketed, featuring two brick stacks: a five-flue stack to the left and a two-flue stack on the ridge to the right. The walls are 47 cm thick cob, which reduces in thickness on the first floor, laid in approximately 45 cm lifts, with a slate damp proof course and a tile-covered string course. The front rooms have suspended timber floors. The original iron range in the living room has been replaced, and larger windows have been inserted in the left bay. The interior partitions are made of brick, and there are reeded doors. The external wall finish reflects the original design intended for the initial five experimental low-cost houses by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.