Wool Greaves Farmhouse
WOOL GREAVES FARMHOUSE, SOUTH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1192159
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Wool Greaves Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WOOL GREAVES FARMHOUSE, SOUTH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1192159
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Wool Greaves Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOL GREAVES FARMHOUSE, SOUTH 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:
- WOOL GREAVES FARMHOUSE, SOUTH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Cawthorne
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 26748 06133
Details
SE 20 NE CAWTHORNE SOUTH LANE (south side)
3/71 Wool Greaves Farmhouse 18.3.68
GV Il*
Farmhouse. Dated 1672. Thinly-coursed rubble with quoins. Stone slate roof (re-roofed) L-plan, 2 bays with cross-wing on right. Two storeys. Double- chamfered windows with hoodmoulds. Entrance to left with quoined surrounds and Tudor-arched lintel inscribed:
"Intret fides exeot fraus J.M. 1672 R.M."
Hoodmould continues over a 5-light window to right above which is a further 5-light window. The gabled wing has a 4-light window to each floor with evidence of a doorway to left of ground-floor window. Oculus and dove perches in gable apex. Hollow-chamfered gable copings on moulded kneelers. Ashlar stack to left and to centre of wing. Rear (to road): 3-light windows under hoodmoulds to gabled left bay with oculus in apex. Finials at verges. One single and two 2-light windows to right, and a 2-light window to 1st floor.
Interior: moulded bressumer across left room with arch cut cut for the door. Panelled screen to heck-post forms the lobby. The right post has gone. Right end of bressumer and right spine beam are grooved for partitions. The stair at rear is enclosed in panelling.
A good and relatively complete example of the type.
Listing NGR: SE2674806133
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334197
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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