Holly Cottage

Holly Cottage comprises two houses, originally a single property, dating to approximately the early 17th century with later builds. The construction is of cob and stone; Holly Cottage is whitewashed and rendered, while No. 8 is colourwashed and plastered. The roof is covered in asbestos slate, gabled at the ends, and formerly thatched. A large projecting stack with set-offs is situated at the left gable end, and there is a lateral stack on the front. The original layout likely consisted of three rooms and a through passage, with a small two-storey gabled projection to the rear. The inner room now functions as a separate property (Holly Cottage), and the lower part may have been dismantled beyond the through passage, which is now an end passage. In the 19th century, a two-storey block was added to the rear of No. 8.

The front of the building is asymmetrical with four windows. Holly Cottage features 20th-century casement windows and a single-storey addition used as a porch on the front left side. No. 8 has a front lateral stack and a half-glazed porch on the right. The ground floor window on the left of No. 8 is a 2-light casement, probably from the 19th or 20th century, with eight panes per light. A 12-pane fixed window was inserted in the late 20th century to the right of the porch. The first floor has a 2-light casement with four panes per light on the left, and a 2-light casement with six panes per light to the right of the stack, again likely from the 19th or 20th century. The rear entrance is through the gabled projection. A 2-light casement with glazing bars is visible on the first floor of the projection.

Inside No. 8, a through passage remains, with timber lintels over the front and rear doorways, leading into the later rear extension. The hall retains chamfered stopped cross beams and a large fireplace, with a chamfered timber lintel partially concealed behind a later lintel. One casement window survives in what was formerly the rear wall of the house. Large 18th-century cupboard doors conceal a former doorway to the inner room. The ground floor of the rear projection has rounded plastered walls and may have originally been a stair projection, although ceiling construction uncovered during renovations in the 1980s suggests it was two storeys from an early date. The original inner gable of the projection was filled with a cob wall. Large principals are visible in the upstairs rooms, and one above the passage has a curved foot supported by a likely 19th-century timber pad. Stud and plaster partition walls divide the middle first floor room, with the wall adjoining Holly Cottage extending to the roof apex. The roof space was not inspected, and rafters removed during a 1980s re-roofing are not smoke-blackened. The interior of Holly Cottage was not inspected.