Woolley Manor
WOOLLEY MANOR, WOOLLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193459
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Woolley Manor
- Statutory Address:
- WOOLLEY MANOR, WOOLLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193459
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Woolley Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOLLEY MANOR, WOOLLEY 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:
- WOOLLEY MANOR, WOOLLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Silkstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 28682 05063
Details
SE 20 NE SILKSTONE WOOLLEY LANE (East side)
3/169 Woolley Manor 18.3.68
GV II
Detached house. Dated 1628, the hall range and left wing appear to be totally C19 in keeping. C20 restoration. Thinly coursed squared rubble with quoins. Stone slate roof. Lower, hall range with 2-bay gabled crosswings giving an H-plan. Two storeys, attic to right wing. Double-chamfered windows with hoodmoulds. The lower, hall range has a central doorway with a 2-light window to each side and a 3-light first-floor window. The left wing has 2-light windows. The right wing has a 3-light and a 2-light window to ground and first floors with common hoodmoulds, and a 2-light window to attic. Hollow-chamfered gable-copings on moulded kneelers. Paired stone brackets to hall and left wing. Ashlar stacks to left wing and each end of hall range, all with string courses and moulded cornices. Rear: Mainly restored. The C17 wing has altered or enlarged windows: tripartite to ground floor and 2-light to first floor, both with decorative hoodmould stops. 2-light window to gable apex. The windows of the hall range are C20 and square-cut. The doorway (presumably reset) has moulded surround and an arched panel above with raised letters reading:
1628 VR NR.
The C19 wing has a plain gable end. The right return has a 3- and a 4-light window to ground floor with common hoodmould, and an altered first-floor window. The left return has windows of 2, 3 and 4 lights.
Interior: Flat-baluster stair at front of right wing. Square-headed moulded fireplace in sane room.
Listing NGR: SE2868205063
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334298
- 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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