Building record 1051/1 - Hollins Farmhouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 406115 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse, early eighteenth century with alterations in 1885 (on porch). Brick nogged timber frame and painted brickwork with tiled roof. "L" shaped plan, two storeys, two bay entrance front with three-bay west return at the north end. Stone plinth, close studding with middle rail. Jettied first floor with shaped console ends to some first floor studs. Chevron treatment at first floor level also shaped studs and quadrant features between ground floor and first floor windows. A projecting gable-end at the north-east corner has a slightly jettied gable. Replaced four-and-five light flush casements. On the east side, a gabled, timber framed porch, with the initials IRA FMA and the 1885 date in the apex, fronts and half glazed four-panel door, with bead and butt panels below, in a chamfered frame with rectangular overlight. Windows on this side are two-to-three-light flush casements; in gabled dormers at first floor level. Tall rebuilt brick stacks. Interior: Ovolo moulded and stop bevelled beams, ledged and battened doors, some on strap hinges, and nineteenth century four-panel doors.