Holly House Including Front Garden Area Wall To East

DITTISHAM SX8654-SX8754 17/301 MANOR STREET DITTISHAM (South side), Holly House including front garden area wall to E

GV II

Cottage. Probably C18 possibly the remodelling of an earlier house which may have incorporated the adjoining house Dartside (qv) to the right. Roughcast stone rubble-slate roof with gabled ends and red clay ridge tiles. Left hand gable end stack with rendsered shaft and 2 turned red clay pots. Plan: 2 room plan with a central cross-passage. Both rooms heated from gable end stacks. The cross-passage leads to an axial passage behind the right hand room and gives access to a straight staircase against the rear wall and back doorway to the right. It is possible that Holly House was originally the lower end of the adjoining house Dartside (qv) to the right. Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3-window east front, the windows and doorway a little to the right. C20 2-light casements with glazing bars. Doorway to right of centre with circa early C19 6-panel door, the bottom panels flush, the top panels glazled. C20 gabled open porch. At the rear a small outbuilding to the left. Including wall enclosing a small front garden area; probably C19, local limestone and slate rubble with cement capping; a gateway at the centre with projecting piers. Interior:m on the ground floor circa early C19 6-panel doors and an C18 stud and panel partition behind the right hand room. A C20 straight staircase to the rear right. On the first floor there are 2 early C18 fielded panel doors. The roofspace was not inspected butr the foot of one straight principal rafter is visible from the first floor.

Listing NGR: SX8661354789