Holme Rose

Holme Rose is an early 19th century single pile range, possibly designed by William Robertson, which fronts and flanks a later 18th century house. The building is three stories tall with three bays and includes a two-story rear courtyard range that may incorporate earlier stables. The southeast elevation features a symmetrical frontage with seven bays. The front is constructed of red droved ashlar, while the side elevations are also ashlar and the rear is made of rubble, with polished ashlar dressings. The design includes band courses, moulded eaves cornices, and symmetrical ridge and end corniced stacks on the main house.

The center bay is slightly advanced and features a projecting semi-circular portico supported by two pairs of Roman Doric columns, topped with a simple panelled and corniced entablature and a shallow flight of semi-circular steps. The central door has a decorative fanlight and flanking sidelights, while the first-floor window is set in a blind lunette with a stepped blocking course above the main cornice. The tall flanking ground floor windows are complemented by shorter first-floor windows that are linked by a cill band. The symmetrical double pile three-story return elevations have some blind windows. A large sun lounge, added in the 1930s, is located on the southwest return elevation at the ground floor. A semi-circular stair tower projects from the center rear in the courtyard, rising to full height in the later 18th century three-bay symmetrical rear elevation, which has a blocked door at the base of the stair tower.

The early 19th century two-story courtyard range at the rear has four-bay side elevations. The inner court features a covered way on three sides, supported by stone Roman Doric columns, which was infilled in the 1930s and each bay is lit by bowed windows. The building has multi-pane glazing throughout and slate roofs.

Inside, the early 19th century corniced plaster ceilings with decorative centerpieces are found in the drawing and dining rooms, located to the left and right of the plain entrance hall. The interior also includes panelled doors with simple corniced architraves, panelled window shutters, and decorative wall light niches from the 1930s in the dining room. There are various changes in level on the first and second floors due to the differences in height between the original three-story house and the later two-story casing.