The Hollies including former coach-house range

The Hollies including former coach-house range

A house in Italianate style, constructed of red brick under a hipped slate roof with square brick stacks. The building comprises two storeys and attics. Its most distinctive feature is a wide terracotta frieze in relief depicting the Parthenon, positioned beneath saw-tooth dentilled eaves. A similar band with Greek-key frieze runs as a string course, with both friezes continuing around the entire house. Other decorative details include square-headed lights, either paired or single, containing horned sashes set in moulded terracotta surrounds with keystones; a brick plinth; and freestone sills or sill bands.

The front elevation is four bays wide, with the three bays to the right arranged symmetrically. A central entrance is fronted by a mid-20th-century flat-roofed brick porch with planked doors at either end and two small-pane windows to the front. Two decorative stone brackets associated with the original doorway survive on either side of the porch, supporting balustraded parapets of freestone and moulded terracotta. These support a pair of projecting stairlights beneath round-arched heads with keystones and fluted stone imposts; above are two-light windows with small-pane and radial glazing incorporating stained glass. The entrance is flanked by paired lights to each storey, while the far left bay contains single lights. The upper storey features narrow openwork iron window box holders and a continuous freestone sill band. To the attic above the symmetrical three bays are three bullseye dormers with moulded wooden surrounds and small-pane glazing with ventilators; the central dormer retains decorative side brackets and a finial. A large brick stack stands to their left, with a small ridge stack to the right of centre.

The east end has three single lights to the first floor, grouped and offset slightly to the right, with detailing matching the front including iron window box holders. An inserted fire-escape doorway to the left is reached by external steel staircase. A bullseye dormer is positioned at the centre of the attic storey. At ground floor level, from right to left, are: a four-pane horned sash window, an original doorway with basket arch containing a recessed boarded door, an adjacent later doorway with concrete lintel to a boiler-room, two single-light horned sashes, and a 20th-century window to the far left.

The rear elevation is three bays wide with paired windows as on the front to the upper storey, featuring iron window box holders and sill bands. Three bullseye dormers occupy the attic, with the finial preserved to the central window. A full-width late 20th-century lean-to canopy spans the ground floor openings. Plain glazed French doors occupy the centre with flanking side lights, a late 20th-century single light to the right, further glazed doors to the left, and a small flat-roofed bay to the far left.

The west end has two projecting stacks between which is a single light with window box holder to the first floor and a bullseye dormer to the attic. Adjoining the ground floor is a flat-roofed 20th-century garage, which links to a former coach-house. This is a gabled range oriented north-south, one-and-a-half storeys high, constructed of red brick under a slate roof with tile cresting. A cupola stands at the centre of the ridge with a swept pyramidal roof. A gabled doorway with boarded door faces east to the upper storey; a 20th-century multi-pane window under a segmental brick head is positioned to the lower storey, right of the garage. At the north end is a wide vehicle opening with a timber lintel.

The interior was not accessible at the time of inspection on 2 May 2001. The house is now converted into two flats and the staircase arrangement is said to have been altered.