Swaithe Hall Farmhouse, Rosebower Cottage and Swaithe Hall
SWAITHE HALL FARMHOUSE, ROSEBOWER COTTAGE AND SWAITHE HALL, CORK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151076
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Swaithe Hall Farmhouse, Rosebower Cottage and Swaithe Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SWAITHE HALL FARMHOUSE, ROSEBOWER COTTAGE AND SWAITHE HALL, CORK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151076
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Swaithe Hall Farmhouse, Rosebower Cottage and Swaithe Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAITHE HALL FARMHOUSE, ROSEBOWER COTTAGE AND SWAITHE HALL, CORK LANE
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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:
- SWAITHE HALL FARMHOUSE, ROSEBOWER COTTAGE AND SWAITHE HALL, CORK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 37424 04451
Details
WORSBROUGH CORK LANE SE30SE (north side) 2/72 Swaithe Hall Farmhouse, Rosebower Cottage and 11.11.66 Swaithe Hall (formerly listed as Swaithe Hall) GV II Farmhouse with large house attached. C16, altered early C17 and in early C19; large house added c1870 for Joseph Mitchell (Wilkinson). Deeply-coursed dressed sandstone, stone slate and Welsh slate roofs. Irregular plan: U-shaped farmhouse with wing to rear centre, interlocked T-shaped house on left return. Farmhouse: 2 storeys, narrow, 1-bay hall-block flanked by gabled cross-wings. Hall-block has doorway on right with panelled door and fanlight beneath round-arched hoodmould, blind 2-light window over; cavetto-moulded and transomed 4-light window on left. C17 dormer with 3-light casements beneath jetty and replaced bargeboards; C19 brick ridge stack. Altered left cross-wing has French window and flanking casements beneath 4-pane sash, hoodmoulds; left part adjoins c1870 house, right part has kneeler and gable copings. Right cross-wing: 16-pane sash to each floor, hoodmoulds; eaves dripmould beneath blocked 2-light attic window with hoodmould; cavetto-moulded gable copings with pedestal finial; brick shaft to lateral stack on left return. Rear: gable on left has 4-light double-chamfered mullioned windows on 2 floors, blocked 2-light attic window. Adjacent return of rear wing has C19 porch (to Rosebower Cottage) flanked by 2-light horizontal-sliding sashes. Right return: gabled projection on right has double-chamfered windows beneath A-strutted king-post truss, some framing to 1st floor of its left return. c1870 house: tall 3-storey gabled bay on left of farmhouse has canted ground-floor bay window, 2-light windows above. Heavy kneelers to roll-moulded gable copings. Entrance front on left return: balanced elevation with central 1-storey porch, gable on left and lateral stack on right.
Interior: Swaithe Hall Farmhouse and Rosebower Cottage each have C17 panelling in front ground-floor rooms.
Home of the Micklethwaite family, the dormer formerly bore date and initials 'R 1618 M' denoting the insertion of a floor over the hall by Richard Micklethwaite. Later home of the Wordsworth family.
J. Wilkinson, Worsbrough, Its Historical Associations and Rural Attractions, 1872, pp195-210.
Listing NGR: SE3742404451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333947
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wilkinson, J, Worsbrough its Historical Associations and Rural Attractions, (1872), 195-210
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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