Description

NORTH MOLTON HOLDRIDGE LANE
SS 72 NW
13/160 Holdridge Farmhouse and West
- Holridge and farmbuildings
adjoining to east and west
GV II
Farmhouse and adjoining farmbuildings, range of buildings later converted into
domestic accommodation. Early to mid C19, with some late C20 alterations. Uncoursed
stone rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. Gable-ended Welsh-slate roof with 2-span
hipped roof at right angles to rear wing of house and hipped roofs to ends of
farmbuildings. Red-brick stacks.
Plan and development: Double-depth plan house facing south; integral brick end stacks
and brick stack to ridge of left-hand rear ridge. Flanking ranges, former service
wing to right and farmbuilding to left-hand end. Left-hand wing partly converted to
domestic use in the late C20. The whole range forms the south side of the farmyard,
with the main U-plan range to the north (q.v.), including threshing barn, cartsheds
and shippons. Two storey house and lower 2 storey farmbuildings.
Exterior: Plinth. Symmetrical 3-bay front; bay 16-pane glazing bar sashes (each leaf
with 4-panes across and 2 up) with slightly-segmental ashlar heads. Central half-
glazed 6-panelled door (lower 3 panels moulded) with 3-part rectagular overlight, and
hipped stone porch with round-arched entrance, pair of C20 half-glazed doors and
small side windows with round-arched lintels. Flanking set-back adjoining
farmbuildings with segmental-headed 2-light wooden casements; openings of left-hand
end altered in the late C20. Rear of house with boxed 16-pane segmental-headed
glazing bar sashes, 2 to first floor and 3 to ground floor; also central 8-pane sash
to first floor.
Interior: Only partly inspected. Central staircase, looks mid - C19. Panelled
window shutters. Kitchen to rear with bench along rear wall.

Listing NGR: SS7382928966

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26577022

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)