Cat Hill Farmhouse
CAT HILL FARMHOUSE, CAT HILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191706
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Cat Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CAT HILL FARMHOUSE, CAT HILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191706
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Cat Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAT HILL FARMHOUSE, CAT HILL 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:
- CAT HILL FARMHOUSE, CAT HILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Penistone
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 24776 05226
Details
PENISTONE CAT HILL LANE SE20NM (west side) 1/13 Cat Hill Farmhouse 23rd June 1965
GV II*
Farmhouse. 1634. Deeply-coursed dressed stone. Stone slate roof. Two-cell plan with projecting rear kitchen wing. Two storeys and attic. Near-symmetrical three-bay front. Chamfered plinth. Central two-storey gabled porch with elaborate doorway with moulded surround, imposts and deep shaped lintel. Hoodmould over with large moulded stops. 2-light window to 1st floor and a single light to gable apex. The left and right bays are both gabled. The left bay has a 6-light transomed parlour window with king mullion, a 4-light lst-floor window and a 2-light attic window. The right bay has a 4-light transomed ground-floor window and a 4-light lst-floor window both with ornamental hoodmould stops, diagonal to ground floor and heart-shaped to 1st floor. 2-light attic window. Moulded gable copings, roll-top parapets and finials. Two large square ashlar stacks, one central, in line with door, the other relating to the kitchen wing. Rear: extensive rebuilding, in keeping. Gabled kitchen wing projects on left. Right return: the left part is gabled with a 2-light transomed window to ground floor under a hoodmould with big square stops. The kitchen wing to right is of two near-symmetrical bays with central, Tudor-arched door with 3-light window to left and 2-light window to right, both transomed and all under continuous hoodmould which rises over the windows. Two 3-light windows to 1st floor. Interior: slightly cambered-arched fireplace with keystone and moulded surround in parlour. Wide elliptical-arched fireplace in kitchen.
Hunter states that the hall, formerly known as Catling Hall, was dated "I T 1634" (date not found at resurvey) and was occupied by the Sotwell family in the C17. Rev. J. Hunter, History of the Deanery of Doncaster and South Yorkshire, 1820. L. Ambler, Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire, 1913.
Listing NGR: SE2477605226
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334039
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hunter, Reverend J, History of the Deanery of Doncaster and South Yorkshire, (1820)
Ambler, L, The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire, (1913)
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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