Holly Cottage

Holly Cottage is a house dating from around 1840. It is constructed of Ham Hill stone ashlar with stepped stone coping, an eaves cornice, and moulded kneelers to a slate roof, featuring brick stacks to the gable ends, with the left-hand stack truncated. The house has a double-depth plan and a rear extension. It is two storeys high, with a symmetrical three-window front. All windows are 20th-century horned sashes with 2/2 panes. The ground floor features a segmental arch over a recessed 20th-century door, flanked by wide segmental-arched recesses housing the windows, beneath a platband where the cills span the recesses. Flat stone arches are above the first-floor sashes, beneath a moulded cornice. The interior’s central passage includes stairs leading off it between the rooms to the left, beneath an elliptical arch. A Tuscan-style pillar, originally part of a rear porch, remains inside; its matching pillar has been relocated to the garden. According to local accounts, the house was once the Valliant Soldier Inn.