Hollacombe House

Hollacombe House is a large farmhouse that likely dates from the 16th or 17th century, but was rebuilt in the 18th century and refurbished and refronted in the mid-19th century. The front of the house is made of stucco on cob with rubble footings, while the rear features whitewashed brick on rubble footings. The building has stone and brick stacks and a concrete tile roof, which was thatched until around 1960. It is L-shaped, with the main block facing south and a rear block behind the left end.

The front block has three rooms and a cross passage leading to a rear stair located to the left of the center room. There are end stacks and a rear lateral stack in the center. The house is two storeys high and has a regular four-window front that is framed by a slightly projecting flat-faced plinth, end pilasters, strips, and an eaves cornice. The entrance features a six-panel front door with an overlight, panelled reveals, and a flat-roofed Tuscan porch supported by two granite columns on block bases, with responds and a wooden entablature.

Flanking the entrance are late 19th-century flat-roofed canted bay windows with moulded entablature, four-pane forward sashes with horns, narrow sidelights, granite sills, and panelled bases. The left bay has a 20th-century door intruded at the front. Other windows are 16-pane sashes without horns. The eaves project on pairs of shaped brackets, and the roof is hipped on each side.

The rear wing has 16-pane sashes on the first floor and casements below, with the roof hipped to the rear. The back of the main block is made of 18th-century brick with burnt headers and includes some 18th or 19th-century timber casements with small panes. Inside, most fittings are from the 19th century, but there is a large volcanic stone fireplace exposed in the rear of the center room, which has a 20th-century replacement lintel and is presumably from the 16th or 17th century. The house appears to have adapted a 16th or 17th-century three-room-and-through-passage plan, and contemporary features are likely hidden. The roof has not been inspected.