Holly House

House. Built around the 17th century, it was remodelled in the 18th century and altered in the mid-20th century. The external walls are of rubble limestone, with a double-Roman clay tile roof and gabled ends. The chimney stacks have been rebuilt with brick. The layout consists of three rooms: a parlour to the left, a central kitchen, and a room to the right, with a straight staircase between the parlour and the kitchen, rising from a front entrance lobby. The unheated service rooms in the attached outshut at the rear have been joined to the front rooms after the removal of partitions. The south front, which faces the main road, is asymmetrical and has five bays. It features 20th-century 12-pane sash windows in 18th-century stone frames with bead moulded arrises, with earlier hoodmoulds over the ground-floor windows. A doorway is positioned to the left of the centre, featuring a chamfered stone frame and an 18th-century stone canopy supported by shaped stone brackets. The rear, north side, has a roofline that drops to lower eaves over the attached outshut and includes 20th-century casement windows. Inside, the parlour has a chamfered axial beam with bar-stops at one end. A 20th-century straight staircase rises from the front entrance lobby. The former kitchen has a large, roughly chamfered axial beam, broad joists, and a large fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and an unchamfered timber bressumer. The small room to the right features a moulded plaster ceiling cornice. Upstairs, a chamber has a late 18th-century moulded stone chimneypiece with a later iron grate, and fielded panelling under the windows. Two bays of an 18th-century tenoned-purlin roof remain at the east end; the rest of the roof has been largely rebuilt. It exemplifies a good example of an 18th-century remodelling of a 17th-century house.