HILDENBOROUGH MILL LANE (east side) TQ 55 SE 2/158 Great Hollanden Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. Circa mid C16 or earlier with a probably C17 remodelling at the north end and a late C19 addition. The main range framed construction, underbuilt in Flemish bond brick, the first floor tile-hung; peg-tile roof; ragstone rubble and brick stacks. The C19 addition is brick with a peg-tile roof and brick stacks. Plan and Development: West-facing. Overall L plan, the main range 2 rooms wide with a crosswing at the north end, the crosswing extended to the rear (east) in the late C19. The 5-bay main range represents the higher end and cross passage entrance of a circa mid C16 house. The higher end may be single phase, although the combination of a crown post roof with a close-studded crosswall seems rather unusual. Both the hall and the jettied inner end (to the south) are heated from massive projecting lateral stacks and there is a large high status heated chamber over the hall. The crosswing, with few dateable details, is probably a C17 rebuilding of the mid C16 lower end, although much altered later. In the late C19 the crosswing was extended, a series of 2-storey rear lean-tos were added to the main range and a stair introduced into the passage. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1:3 window west front, the gable end of the crosswing to the left, the roof of the main range gabled at the right end. C19 gabled porch to the entrance, alongside the crosswing, with a segmental arched outer doorway and a half-glazed 2-leaf circa early C20 inner door. To the right a C19 or early C20 single-storey projecting bay with a 2-light casement. 2-, 3- and 4-light C19 casements with glazing bars, some paired. The right (south) end is jettied with a large late C20 window replacing a C17 bay window. The projecting lateral stacks on the rear elevation are now enclosed by the C19 additions. They have tall, tapering, handmade brick shafts, the chimney breasts ragstone rubble, the rear right stack with a rebuilt shaft. The left (north) return has a probably C19 stack heating the crosswing and 2 ground and one first floor 3-light casements. The C19 extension is 6 windows on the north side, the ground floor windows with segmental arched heads and all preserving their C19 glazing, 2-panes per light. Interior: The circa mid C16 hall has a richly-moulded, longitudinal beam with canted step stops, a neatly-carpentered close-studded partition at the higher end and a large open fireplace with moulded stone jambs, the lintel concealed by late C19 or early C20 timbers. The right hand room has a similar moulded and stopped crossbeam and matching intersecting beam on the north side only. The crosswing is plain, with no early visible features. The chamber over the hall has an intersecting beam ceiling with chamfered stopped beams and a good C16 moulded stone chimney-piece with a Tudor arched lintel. Some wall framing with large tension braces is visible on the first floor. Roof: 5-bays of crown post construction, one of the posts removed. The carpentry is of a late character for the roof type with plain posts braced 2 ways to the collar purlin and probably only once to the tie-beams, although some braces may have been removed. The timber is of comparatively slender scantling, the braces flat and broad and the bays closely-spaced. The tie- beams are supported on jowled wallposts. A ledger stone (presently concealed) below the altar of Leigh church commemorates John Stace of Hollenden, died 1591. (Information from the owners, who have a full list of C16 and C17 owners and photographs of the house in the late C19.) A high status traditional house with interesting carpentry. Listing NGR: TQ5588949619