Description

HULLAVINGTON WATTS LANE
ST 88 SE
(north side)
5/54 No 3 (Holly House)
- II

House. Circa C17; remodelled C18 and altered mid C20. Coursed limestone rubble. Double-Roman clay tile roof with gabled ends. Gable-end and axial stacks with rebuilt brick shafts.
PLAN: 3-room plan with parlour on the left, kitchen at the centre, another room at the right end and a straight staircase between the parlour and the kitchen rising from an entrance lobby at the front. The unheated service rooms in the integral outshut at the back have been united with the front rooms by the removal of partitions.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-bay south front; C20 12-pane sashes in C18 stone frames with bead moulded arrises, the ground floor with earlier hoodmoulds; doorway to left of centre with chamfered stone frame and C18 stone canopy on shaped stone brackets. At the rear [N] the roof is carried down to lower eaves over integral outshut that has C20 casement windows.
INTERIOR: The parlour to the left has chamfered axial beam with bar-stops at one end. C20 straight staircase rising from entrance lobby. Former kitchen at centre has large roughly chamfered axial beam and broad joists and large fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and unchamfered timber bressumer. Small room at right end has moulded plaster ceiling cornice. Chamber above has a fireplace with a small C18 moulded stone chimneypiece and a later iron grate and fielded panelling under the windows. Two bays of C18 tenoned-purlin roof remains at east end; remainder of roof largely rebuilt.
A good example of an C18 remodelling of a C17 house.

Listing NGR: ST8962082159

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26274228

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6