Holt Cottage , The Holt And Scalby Holt

House, now 3 dwellings. Built in 1882 and subdivided in 1950. Located on the south side of High Street in Scalby, comprising Nos 3 (Holt Cottage), 5 (The Holt), and 7 (Scalby Holt).

The building is constructed with a stone plinth, rendered front ground floor with brick to the rear. The upper walls are tile-hung to the front with a timber-framed centre bay, and timber-framed to the rear. Ashlar stone dressings are used to corners and window openings. The roof is tiled with brick stacks. The style is Domestic Revival.

The street front is 2 storeys with irregular fenestration. The centre and outer bays break forward. The centre bay contains panelled oak double doors in a shallow ogee-arched moulded stone door frame with foliage-carved spandrels. To the right of the door is a 2-light mullion and transom window. Above the door is a jettied bay on carved brackets with a 3-light casement beneath a pointed gable with plain bargeboards. A single-light casement under a bracketed canopy is positioned to the right. The outer bay to the right has a 2-storey stone canted bay with casements beneath a hipped roof. Other ground floor windows feature cavetto-moulded mullion and transom frames; those in recessed bays have tiled pent canopies. Upper windows are casements. All windows have square-paned leaded lights. A terra-cotta string course runs beneath the tile-hung upper storey. The roof features overhanging bracketed eaves and is steeply pitched with hips and gables. The centre gable is finished with a timber finial, and the canted bay roof is surmounted by a terra-cotta dragon. Panelled end stacks are positioned to the left of the centre gable and elsewhere.

The garden front is 2 storeys and attic with irregular fenestration. The central entrance is similar to the street front with recessed half-glazed double doors and a tiled canopy on carved brackets. A second door in a glazed porch is located in the angle with the set-back bay to the right. To the left of the main entrance is a 2-storey canted bay with decorative framing between ground and first floor windows and a gable attic. To the right of the door are paired casements in a stone surround with king mullion. All ground and first floor windows are casements. The upper floor is jettied on carved brackets with overhanging bracketed eaves. Timber-framed, jettied gables to left and right, with a dormer between, are richly carved with foliage and fruit and finished with finials. The roof is steeply pitched and irregular with a panelled extruded end stack to the left. The bressummer to the left gable carries the date and the monogram TAC, recording that the house was built for the family of Thomas Cooke, one of the foremost telescope-makers of the 19th century.

The interior of No 7 includes the drawing-room of the original house, which features a classical-style carved timber fireplace painted white with fluted Ionic pilasters and entablature. Paired pilasters of the same order, enriched on tall panelled pedestals, frame an alcove and the bay window and carry an entablature which encases the room. A further moulded cornice runs to the ceiling. The hall has oak square panelling, a carved fireplace, and a carved staircase. A carved lion on a tile newel post bears a shield inscribed with the date 1882.