Holy Well Farm

Holy Well Farm is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, possibly with earlier origins, and has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of rendered rubblestone and features a Roman tile roof. The building has a three-cell plan with a through passage and an added cell to the right. It stands two storeys high and has five first-floor windows.

On the garden front, there is an added porch at the second bay doorway, with a late 20th-century glazed door to the left bay. The other windows have been replaced with late 20th-century versions that respect the positions of the original windows. The ends of the building have late 20th-century brick stacks, and there is a bridge between the second and third bays.

At the rear, there is a projecting gabled bay on the right that may have 17th or 18th-century origins but has been heightened and features a late 20th-century glazed door and window above. An added outshut extends from the main range, which has a board door and late 20th-century windows.

Inside, the main interest is in the room to the right of the entrance passage, which has a large fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel supported on the right side by a monolithic jamb, with the chamfer terminating in a half pyramidal stop. The ceiling is compartmented, with principal beams that have broad chamfers and joists with scratch-moulded soffits. The left-hand room contains chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops and an inserted fireplace.

On the first floor, the rear wall has three blocked single-light windows with splayed jambs and wide floorboards. Between the two original right-hand bays, the partition wall has a low doorway framed by posts with triangular cut tops, giving it a shouldered head. The only surviving original roof truss is located at this point; it features steeply-pitched principal rafters with seating for former trenched purlins, a tie-beam, and a slightly cambered collar.