Cowhouse Adjoining North West Corner of Midhope Hall Farmhouse
COWHOUSE ADJOINING NORTH WEST CORNER OF MIDHOPE HALL FARMHOUSE, MIDHOPE HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132844
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cowhouse Adjoining North West Corner of Midhope Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COWHOUSE ADJOINING NORTH WEST CORNER OF MIDHOPE HALL FARMHOUSE, MIDHOPE HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132844
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cowhouse Adjoining North West Corner of Midhope Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COWHOUSE ADJOINING NORTH WEST CORNER OF MIDHOPE HALL FARMHOUSE, MIDHOPE HALL LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- COWHOUSE ADJOINING NORTH WEST CORNER OF MIDHOPE HALL FARMHOUSE, MIDHOPE HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 23347 99537
Details
SK29NW BRADFIELD MIDHOPE HALL LANE (north side), Midhopestones.
3/57 Cowhouse adjoining north-west corner of Midhope Hall Farmhouse.
II
Cowhouse with hayloft, incorporating part of a medieval courthouse. Probably C14, later additions,extensive C20 rebuilding. Squared gritstone rubble, earlier work irregular, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 7 bays. Quoins. Cart entrance to right now with steel joist over. To left, 4 cowhouse doors with chamfered quoined surrounds and large lintels. To first floor, 2 square pitching holes and 2 C20 doorways. Rear mostly altered; traces of earlier work include : massive quoins to the right reveal of the opposed cart entrance, to right of centre the trace of an earlier abutting roof with, to its left, a large corbel and blocked first floor doorway (now window) with quoined reveals. Interior: in the centre of the cowhouse is an octagonal oak post with simple capital carrying a pad with roll mouldings at each end, above it is scarfed a single heavy longitudinal ceiling beam. A first floor window at the right end of the building (now opening into the cart entrance bay) retains a chamfered rectangular opening with a timber lintel shaped with trefoiled heads to 4 former lights, mullions removed. Midhope Hall Farm marks the site of an important manorial centre held by the De Midhope family from C12 to early C14 and succeeded by the De Barnby family.
P. Ryder, 'The Old Courthouse, Midhope Hall Farm', Archaeological Journal vol 137, 1980 pp460-1.
Listing NGR: SK2334799537
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335380
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Archaeological Journal in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 137, (1980), 460-1
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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