The Hollies And Hollies Cottage And Attached Boundary Wall And Gateway

The Hollies and Hollies Cottage form a house at the north end of a row, dating to the late 18th century, with some earlier fabric to the rear. The main house is built with a rubble core, rendered over, and has Welsh slate mansard roofs with hips on the south side and a coped gable to the north. Rendered chimney stacks are present.

The plan comprises a one-room, double-depth unit to the left, brought forward to the right is a single room with an entrance hall and staircase, backed by a long, narrow wing which incorporates Hollies Cottage.

The exterior is two storeys with attics, and has two bays with a single bay projection. It includes a plinth, cornice, plain parapet, and sash windows in plain architraves, with 12 panes below and 9 panes above. There is a front entrance in the projection, with a six-panel door and plain architrave. Segmental-arched roof dormers are present, the one above the projection having a nine-pane segmental top sash window, while others have two-light casement windows. A double gable is visible to the north, and a lower two-storey extension is positioned to the rear.

Inside, the entrance hall features a fine 18th-century dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and open treads, and a rosette-decorated cornice. The front left-hand room has a marble pilastered fireplace, decorative frieze and cornice, and panelled double doors lead to the rear room, which exhibits an Adamesque fireplace and a palmette frieze with cornice. The rear room to the right has rough beams, possibly dating from the 17th or early 18th century, and a three-panel door. The first floor includes several early two-panel doors. On the second floor, the back room has a 16-pane sash window. Most of the sash windows have shutters. The rear wing, slated with two brick stacks, incorporates Hollies Cottage, which contains pegged roof trusses, one lower room with two large chamfered beams, and a cellar with a brick barrel vault.

A length of stone rubble boundary wall extends from the north-west corner, rising as high as the first-floor sills, with a plain end pier and stone coping. It has a small gateway with a boarded door, which forms an important element of the street scene.