Holly Tree Farmhouse

THORPE MAIN STREET SE 006l-0161 (west side) 14/86 Holly Tree Farmhouse 10.9.54 GV II Farmhouse. Probably 1793 with mid C18 remains. Coursed squared grey gritstone and ashlar, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Plinth and rusticated quoins. Central 6-panel door with fanlight in architrave with attached Tuscan columns and reeded round arch with keystone. Flanking Venetian windows with elaborate detailing: the mullions are attached Tuscan columns, the capitals missing, standing on a projecting sill which is supported by 2 fluted corbels. The window heads are reeded and have small keystones. 3 rectangular windows with reeded surrounds to first floor set beneath a projecting eaves band. Shaped kneelers, gable copings, banded end stacks. Right return: two windows to each floor in moulded architraves, those to ground floor very tall, those to first floor the same height as those on the main facade. Projecting band at eaves level; a semicircular blind window in projecting reeded surround to apex of gable. The Tuscan columns and gable architraves are probably details reused from the original house, contemporary with the Manor House (q.v.) and retained when the house was rebuilt or altered in c1793, the date of the barn to the south (q.v.) Similar Venetian windows of c1770 remain unaltered at the Old Vicarage, Arncliffe. (q.v. Arncliffe C.P.).

Listing NGR: SE0129061731