Description

DITTISHAM
SX8654-SX8754
17/301 MANOR STREET
DITTISHAM (South side),
Holly House including front
garden area wall to E

GV II

Cottage. Probably C18 possibly the remodelling of an earlier house which
may have incorporated the adjoining house Dartside (qv) to the right.
Roughcast stone rubble-slate roof with gabled ends and red clay ridge
tiles. Left hand gable end stack with rendsered shaft and 2 turned red
clay pots.
Plan: 2 room plan with a central cross-passage. Both rooms heated from
gable end stacks. The cross-passage leads to an axial passage behind the
right hand room and gives access to a straight staircase against the rear
wall and back doorway to the right. It is possible that Holly House was
originally the lower end of the adjoining house Dartside (qv) to the right.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3-window east front, the windows
and doorway a little to the right. C20 2-light casements with glazing bars.
Doorway to right of centre with circa early C19 6-panel door, the bottom
panels flush, the top panels glazled. C20 gabled open porch. At the rear a
small outbuilding to the left.
Including wall enclosing a small front garden area; probably C19, local
limestone and slate rubble with cement capping; a gateway at the centre
with projecting piers.
Interior:m on the ground floor circa early C19 6-panel doors and an C18
stud and panel partition behind the right hand room. A C20 straight
staircase to the rear right. On the first floor there are 2 early C18
fielded panel doors. The roofspace was not inspected butr the foot of one
straight principal rafter is visible from the first floor.

Listing NGR: SX8661354789

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26402048

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)