Hollin Hill Farmhouse

SEDBERGH

SD6792 BUCKBANK LANE, Soolbank 162-1/18/436 (North side) 14/06/84 Hollin Hill Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: SOOLBANK Hollein Hill)

GV II*

Farmhouse, with added peat-house at south-west end. Dated 1712 on porch; altered. Roughly-coursed mixed rubble (mostly blue ragstone) with sandstone quoins and dressings, graduated green slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 windows (formerly 4), formerly symmetrical, with prominent stone-slate courses over both floors. The ground floor has a gabled porch with wooden lintel to the opening protected by a stone-slate drip-band, a square datestone over this with raised lettering "E B / 1712", and a square-headed inner doorway with double-layered oak door on strap hinges. To the left of the porch a 6-pane double-hung sashed window, left of this a 2-light window with 3 panes to each light and the topmost pane opening as a double-hung sash, and 2 similar 2-light sashes to the right. The 1st floor has a similar 2-light sash and a 6-pane double-hung sash to the left, a larger 3-light sash to the right and a blocked window right of this. Iron gutter on slender metal brackets approx. 40cm below oversailing eaves. Gable chimneys, both with stone-slate weather courses and coupled cylindrical shafts, and that to the right corbelled from 1st floor (visible inside attached barn, qv). Full-height lean-to peat-house attached to left gable, with through-passage doorway at junction and window to left. Rear: lean-to porch offset right, its left side now integrated with deeper C19 lean-to outhouse, both roofed with massive stone slabs; chamfered 1-light window at ground floor, with iron saddle-bar (now covered by outhouse); tall 2-stage small-paned stair-window above outhouse, and 2 oblong small-paned windows on each floor, each with one opening pane and a wooden lintel. INTERIOR: wooden panelled partitions throughout on both floors (including screen to smokehood at 1st floor), all muntin-and-plank except that to parlour which is muntin-and-rail; chamfered beams, including smokehood bressumer in housepart to right (which has inserted C19 partition to form passage); large mid-C18 stone fireplace with corbelled lintel; dog-legged stone staircase with closed string, square newels and turned balusters; collar-truss roof. Forms group with attached barn (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6745192880