Holland

Holland is a farmhouse dating from around the late 16th century. It is constructed from rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a metal sheet roof featuring gable ends. The building has brick shafts on the right-hand gable end and to the right of the entrance. It likely follows a three-room and cross passage layout, with extensions at the right-hand higher end and a short wing at the rear. The cross passage is now blocked, possibly due to the re-orientation of the fireplace.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a symmetrical five-window range, with two windows on both storeys to the right of a two-storey porch. The left side of the porch features asymmetrical fenestration, with two ground floor windows and one above, positioned towards the central porch. On the ground floor to the left of the porch, there are two 20th-century windows. The porch has a segmental moulded granite arch and a 20th-century part-glazed door. To the right of the porch, there are two 19th-century three-light casements with glazing bars. The first floor has a 19th-century two-light casement with glazing bars directly to the left of the porch, and two similar windows to the right above the ground floor openings. There is also a 19th-century two-light casement beneath a 19th-century segmental arch in the gable end of the porch.

Inside, the room to the left of the porch features two partly exposed heavy chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops. The left-hand beam has notches cut out on both sides, possibly originally for muntins of a timber screen. The room beyond to the north has had earlier ceiling beams removed. The current baffle entry plan may be a result of the re-orientation of a fireplace that originally backed onto the cross passage, which now heats the room to the left of the porch. The room to the right of the porch has a plastered ceiling. The room on the far right (south) may have been added in the 19th century, featuring a thinner stone rubble gable end, a change in ceiling height, and a modern grate. The roof has a high-quality 19th-century king post truss with a boarded underside slope. Repair work has been carried out by the Kelly Estate.

Holland appears in records from the mid-17th century and was part of lands belonging to Bidlake in Bridstowe, likely coming into Bidlake hands through a marriage in 1408.