Rockley Old Hall and attached front garden wall

Rockley Old Hall and attached front garden wall, 6, 7 and 8, Rockley Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192304
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: Rockley Old Hall and attached front garden wall
Statutory Address:: Rockley Old Hall and attached front garden wall, 6, 7 and 8, Rockley Lane

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192304
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: Rockley Old Hall and attached front garden wall
Statutory Address 1:: Rockley Old Hall and attached front garden wall, 6, 7 and 8, Rockley Lane

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Rockley Old Hall and attached front garden wall, 6, 7 and 8, Rockley 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 34170 02771

Details

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SE30SW 1/95

WORSBROUGH ROCKLEY LANE (east side, off) Nos 6, 7 and 8 (Rockley Old Hall) and attached front garden wall

(Formerly listed as Rockley Old Hall (including unoccupied parts) together with two cottages and Joining Front Garden Wall to Rockley Old Hall)

11.11.66

GV II

Manor house now three dwellings and attached garden wall. Of several C17 builds. Ashlar sandstone, stone slate roof. Wall of dry-walled sandstone and mortared rubble.

House: two storeys with attics; five gabled bays, bays two and three narrower, entrance to rear; attached rectangular wall encloses front garden. Bay four appears earliest and has chamfered plinth and four-light double-chamfered mullioned window with similar two-light window on right, continuous dripmould; three-light first-floor window with dripstone; two-light attic window. Bays two and three similar with C20 gabled porch (not of special interest) flanked on left by five-light window and on right by three-light window; continuous first-floor dripmould. Bay one, probably late C17, has French window on ground-floor right, otherwise two-light square-faced mullioned windows and plain dripmoulds. Bay five has door to left of C20 four-light window; single-light and three-light windows to first-floor, two-light window to attic. Kneelers at each end of range, gable copings, finials to bay two and three, finial bases to bays four and five. Ashlar stack to ridge of bay four has plinth and cornice.

Attached garden wall: gap in left return near house. Two front door openings with chamfered quoins and lintels set on flagstone copings; quoined, arched doorway in right return.

Rear of house: bays one, two and five gabled. Bays three and four, set back, have chamfered, bonded surround to boarded door on left, eight-light window on its right with king-mullion and transom, dripmould; first floor: two three-light mullioned windows on right of former two-light window. Bays one and two have external stone steps to central first-floor doorway; large ground-floor opening on left with concrete lintel, four-light window above, with dripstone, two-light gable window. On right of steps are paired casements in square-faced surrounds. Bay five, late C17, has square-faced two-light mullioned windows with plain dripstones. Left return: detailed as outer gables. Right return: double-chamfered mullioned windows: two four-light windows beneath first-floor windows of two, four and two lights, central window with king mullion.

Interior: No 6 on right has ashlar fireplaces, that to rear of ground floor having large basket arch with brick oven in corner, first-floor fireplace with roll-mould. Kitchen has corniced fireplace within C18 panelling. No 7 in centre of range has large ashlar fireplace with square soffit to triangular-headed lintel. No 8 has splat-balustered staircase and panelled plaster ceilings.

J. G. Wright, Worsbrough: In Times Past, 1983.

Listing NGR: SE3417002771

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Legacy System number:: 333971
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Wright, J G, Worsbrough in Times Past, (1983)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.