Holly House

Holly House is a house that has been divided into two, originally built in the late 17th century. It was refronted and raised in the early 18th century, with later alterations. The building is constructed from coursed, squared gritstone with an ashlar facade, featuring gritstone dressings and quoins at the rear. It has a plinth, wide plain bands between the storeys, plain quoined corner pilasters, and a moulded eaves cornice that projects over the pilasters, along with plain parapets. The roof is steeply pitched, covered with plain tiles and has a stone ridge, stone gable end stacks, and stone coped gables with moulded kneelers.

The house has three storeys and five bays on the front, with three bays at the rear and a single-storey projecting wing to the west. The central entrance features a moulded doorcase with a segmental pediment on tall brackets, leading to a panelled door with a plain overlight. On the east side, there are two windows: one with a glazing bar sash in a raised, shouldered surround, and a blocked 2-light square sectioned mullion window with a similar surround to the west. The west side has a similar arrangement of windows. In the projecting wing to the west, there are two 2-light square sectioned mullioned windows, one of which is now blocked.

Above the main facade, there are four windows similar to those below, arranged in the same way, plus a central blocked 2-light mullion window. Higher up, there are shallower windows in a similar arrangement. The rear elevation features a central flush doorcase with a raised fillet to the edge and a plain entablature. On either side, there are 17th-century 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows, with the western light of the west window blocked. Above, there is a plain band and similar windows to those below, with a tall 18th-century flush mullion and transom stair window between them. Above again, there is another plain band and three 2-light 18th-century flush mullion windows.

Inside, the house has a good quality early 18th-century open-welled winder staircase made of oak, featuring turned, knopped balusters and a moulded handrail, along with an early 18th-century panelled cupboard and pitch pine dado rail in the ground floor rooms.