Holylee Cottages, Holylee Farm

Circa 1930. Pair of 1?-storey, 4-bay, Arts and Craft style, adjoined rectangular-plan cottages with steeply pitched roofs and smaller pitched and gabled side wings. Coursed local whinstone rubble with chamfered sandstone sills, lintels and mullions; whinstone rybats and quoins.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Right cottage: plain entrance doorway containing timber door with 6 glazed panels to upper portion; slated canopy porch with timber brackets breaking eaves; square window to flanks of door; bipartite window with stone mullion to left. Left cottage: mirrored plan forming symmetrical elevation.

SW ELEVATION: main gable with window to upper left; lower pitched roof projecting wing adjoining to ground floor left and terminating in gabled end.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: to left and right, wings adjoining into main cottage forming continuous symmetrical 6-bay elevation to ground floor with single windows to bays 1 and 6, bipartite windows to 2nd and 5th bays and tripartite windows to 3rd and 4th bays. To high ?-storey, pair of catslide bipartite dormers (one for each cottage) with flat slated cheeks, aligned above bays 3 and 4.

NE ELVATION: main gable with window to upper right; lower pitched roof projecting wing adjoining to ground floor right and terminating in gabled end.

8, 9 and 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; panes equally divided between sashes but 9-pane with 3-pane upper sash and 6-pane lower sash; upper sashes with horns. Steeply pitched slate roof with slate ridges and lead flashing; open verges in lieu of skews and putts. Bipartite timber catslide dormers to rear elevation with flat slated cheeks to rear elevation; single cast-iron Carron lights to centre of each cottage roof, on main elevation near eaves. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Unusual whinstone rubble end stacks rising in place of skews to front pitch of roof near apex, sandstone neck copes with paired replacement cans; shared squat stack (of similar materials and design) to centre of roofline with 4 cans.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2002 but currently in use as residential accommodation.