This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
WORSBROUGH GENN LANE SE30SW (south side) 1/76 Nos 130 and 132 (Genn House) with attached outbuilding 11.11.66 and garden wall (house-part of item formerly listed as part of Genn House, Barn at Genn House) GV II Farmhouse with attached outbuilding and garden wall. c1700 for Dr. William Elmhirst (d1715) (Wright p29), house extensively rebuilt 1964. Coursed, squared sandstone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys with attics, 3 windows to lst floor; house linked by external steps to small outbuilding on right, front garden wall incorporates dog kennel beneath mounting steps at front right corner. House: large quoins. Central 6-panel door in quoined surround beneath date plaque inscribed '1964'. Outer bays have sashes with glazing bars in square-faced surrounds, 3 similar lst-floor sashes in bonded ashlar surrounds. Shaped kneelers, chamfered gable copings. Renewed stone end stacks with cornices. Set back to right and linked by external stone steps the outbuilding has a pair of quoined doorways, that to right with curved-soffit lintel, the other with truncated lintel and part-blocked 2-light mullioned window on its left. lst-floor hatch over right-hand door.
Garden wall has later side gate in right return and oval entrance to dog kennel beneath mounting steps in front-right angle.
Interior: C18 balustraded staircase. Name commemorates John Genn of Ouslethwaite who married a daughter of John Elmhirst in c1320.
J. G. Wright, Worsbrough: In Times Past, 1983.
Listing NGR: SE3389704689
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1088 IOE Records taken by Barry Jackson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Barry Jackson. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Jackson, Barry
Rights Holder: Jackson, Barry
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