Holland Cottage (EHER 34328)

An early 17th century timber framed house with later alterations in the 19th and 20th century. It is plastered and has a thatched roof. It is formed of three bays facing SW, with a central stack forming a lobby-entrance. There is a 20th century extension to rear.

Listed building description An early 17th century timber framed house with later alterations in the 19th and 20th century. It is plastered and has a thatched roof. It is formed of three bays facing SW, with a central stack forming a lobby-entrance. There is a 20th century extension to rear. It is one storey with attics. At the front is an 19th century Gothic Revival porch of red brick in Flemish bond, with roof of handmade red clay tiles. The date 1589 inscribed in modern plaster of left dormer. There is close studding with chisel-cut carpenter's assembly marks, primary straight bracing, face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates. The right bay has a chamfered axial beam and chamfered joists of horizontal section, all with lamb's tongue and roll stops. The left bay has a chamfered beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain square joists in front of it, chamfered joists of horizontal section with lamb's tongue stops behind it. The building has a clasped purlin roof. <1>