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SWAITHE HOUSE

SWAITHE HOUSE, MITCHELL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1286701
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: SWAITHE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SWAITHE HOUSE, MITCHELL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1286701
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: SWAITHE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SWAITHE HOUSE, MITCHELL STREET

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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SWAITHE HOUSE, MITCHELL STREET

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 37230 04098

Details

WORSBROUGH MITCHELL STREET SE30SE (west side) Swaithe 2/104 Swaithe House 11.11.66 - II* Large farmhouse. Dated 'WH / 1680' with addition of c1720. Deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone, the c1720 part stuccoed; stone slate and graduated slate roofs, c1720 house: 3 storeys with basement and attics, 5-bay symmetrical facade; C17 rear wing of 3 storeys, 5 windows to 1st floor. c1720 house: plinth, projecting quoins, floor bands. Arcaded-panel door with 4-pane overlight in bolection-moulded architrave beneath consoled segmental pediment. Flanking bays have damaged 24-pane sashes in architraves. lst-floor windows similar, bay-2 sash removed, central sash has moulded sill and architrave in raised ashlar panel with cornice. 2nd floor: 2-pane sashes, that to bay 2 removed; lintel band links architraves beneath eaves cornice; 3-bay pediment with unglazed oeil-de-boeuf in ashlar tympanum. Hipped roof with roof dormers on return slopes, corniced ashlar stacks set to rear. Right return: blind ground-floor window on right beneath band; 18-pane sash to 1st floor with 2-pane sash over; central roof-dormer has pedimented gable. Set back on right is the lower wing of 1680: large quoins. Quoined doorway to left of centre has cambered lintel with date, hoodmould continues as dripmould over flanking windows; on right a 3-light double-chamfered mullioned window and 2 similar 2-light windows (one blocked) with blocked quoined doorway beyond; on left a casement in original surround, large 3-light horizontal-sliding sash on its left with blocked double-chamfered opening beyond. 1st floor: blocked 2-light opening with intact 4-light window on right, part-blocked single-light window over door, 3-light horizontally-sliding sash on right with blocked original opening beyond. 2nd floor: four 2-light openings all but that on left blocked. Shaped kneelers and gable copings on right. Ashlar ridge stack opposite door has plinth and cornice, roof in very poor condition at time of resurvey. Left return: lateral stack to C17 wing.

Interior: c1720 house: original features in poor condition include fielded-panelling in ground-floor-left room with pulvinated frieze to fireplace; bolection-moulded door architraves; wooden staircase with alternating barley-sugar, fluted and plain balusters. C17 house: ground-floor room adjoining c1720 range has chamfered transverse ceiling beams and bressumer beam; C18 dog-leg, balustered staircase; lst-floor rooms with plaster cornices, some C17 panelling; rear part of house has 2 spine beams set on stop-chamfered posts; double-collared principal rafters with stub tie beams set on carved corbela.

Owned by the Hall family until 1773 (Wilkinson pp211-223).

J. Wilkinson, Worsbrough, Its Historical Associations and Rural Attractions, 1872.

RCHM report July 1980.

Save, South Yorks: Buildings at Risk, 1984, pp14-15.

Listing NGR: SE3723004098

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 333965
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Wilkinson, J, Worsbrough its Historical Associations and Rural Attractions, (1872), 211-223
Other
Buildings at Risk South Yorkshire, (1984)

Legal

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