Description

AIREBOROU6H HOLLINS HILL SE 14 SE LS 20 (east side, off) Guiseley 4/55 Hollins Hill Farmhouse 13.3.86 (formerly listed as "Hollins Hill Farm and detached privy" GV II

Farmhouse. Probably C17, remodelled in early C18 (dated 1720 over door); altered. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof. Rectangular central-lobby-entry double-depth 4-room plan. Two storeys and 5 bays, symmetrical, in vernacular "classical" style; 3 steps up to central doorway which has a hollow-moulded architrave with pseudo-keystone; 4 windows at ground floor and 5 above, all vertical rectangular, have raised architraves with moulded sills and small roll moulding to the jambs and heads, that in centre of 1st floor blocked and the others with recent 6-pane glazing, but formerly all cross-windows (marks of transoms visible in jambs); datestone below sill of central 1st floor window has raised moulding to an ogival panel which encloses raised lettering " R " (= Peter and Margaret Rhodes). P M 1720 Left return wall has coupled window at ground floor, single window above. Rear has inter alia a central doorway with chamfered surround and ogee-shaped lintel (of C17 character).

Interior: large C17 chimney stack with fireplaces unusually arranged at right-angles to each other; in right-hand front room (housebody) a large elliptical-arched stone fireplace with moulded surround, and to the right of this a small saltcupboard with H-hinges; and in the rear kitchen a similar fireplace with chamfered surround, incorporating in its left side a vaulted bread oven, the rear of which protrudes into the right-hand end of the housebody fireplace; extensive plank-and-muntin panelled partitions in right-hand half and at 1st floor; opening out of this in rear of housebody, a dog-legged staircase with splat balusters; chamfered beams.

Note: except for alterations to windows, an unusually complete survival of its date. (Missing mullions and transoms of windows said to be loose in garden and elsewhere.)

Listing NGR: SE1820241044

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