Holt House

Holt House is a late 18th-century rebuilding of an earlier house, with a cottage attached at the end of a row, now combined into a single dwelling. The house is constructed of coursed rubble stone, with a Welsh slate roof and stone stacks. It is two storeys high, with a three-window facade. The central door is an 8-panelled design, set within a beaded architrave with a flat stone hood supported by brackets, alongside a 12-pane sash window to the left and a half-glazed door to the right. The first floor has three tall round-headed sash windows and a small, pivot-hung light to the right. The facade rises to a parapet, which features a pediment over the central bay. A two-bay range is attached to the right of the front, with 12-pane sash windows to both ground and first floors. The left return has a small sash window to the right and three larger sashes to the left, on both ground and first floors. A blocked 3-light mullioned casement is located to the right on the first floor, and a straight joint suggests that the three leftmost bays are an early 19th-century addition. The rear elevation has two pairs of sash windows, one incorporating a half-glazed door, and three sashes to the first floor, under a triple-hipped roof. The interior features 4 and 6-panelled doors in moulded architraves, window shutters, and grey marble fireplaces. The stair hall contains a good open-well staircase with scrolled wrought iron balusters, a moulded and ramped handrail, and a round-arched doorway with double doors leading to the top landing. The dining room has a panelled dado and an overmantel decorated with swags and floral drops. The drawing room has an acanthus-leaf plaster ceiling frieze and reeded margins.