Millhouse, Dissenters Chapel and former Minster's house at Bullhouse

Millhouse, Dissenters Chapel and former Minster's house at Bullhouse, Manchester Road

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1314708
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1965
List Entry Name:
Millhouse, Dissenters Chapel and former Minster's house at Bullhouse
Statutory Address:
Millhouse, Dissenters Chapel and former Minster's house at Bullhouse, Manchester Road
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1314708
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1965
List Entry Name:
Millhouse, Dissenters Chapel and former Minster's house at Bullhouse
Statutory Address 1:
Millhouse, Dissenters Chapel and former Minster's house at Bullhouse, Manchester Road

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Millhouse, Dissenters Chapel and former Minster's house at Bullhouse, Manchester Road

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 21136 02653

Details

SE20SW
3/30

PENISTONE
MANCHESTER ROAD (west side, off)
Millhouse, Dissenters Chapel and former Minster's house at Bullhouse

23rd June 1965

GV
II
Non-conformist chapel (formerly Presbyterian). Dated 1692, cottage slightly later. For Elkanah Rich of Bullhouse Hall. Deeply-coursed stone. Stone slate roof. Rectangular plan of single storey, five bays with two-storey cottage attached to rear right. Chamfered plinth. Central gabled porch whose entrance has elliptical head and moulded surround. The inner doorway has a shallow segmental head with inscribed keystone: "APRIL18 ANOD 1692"

Heavy, four-panel, double studded door. Double-chamfered cross-windows to each side with round-arched lights and sunken spandrels. Later buttress between bays four and five. Moulded eaves cornice, moulded gable copings on cut kneelers. Ball finials to apexes. Rear elevation plain. Left return: a 3 + 3 light transomed window. Right return: two cross-windows detailed as front; the cottage is set back slightly and has a two-light window to each floor, detailed as before. The entrance is within a later lean-to addition to right side, with a four-panel door.

Interior: plaster ceiling. Three cased tie-beams braced to short wall posts on stone corbels. Hexagonal panelled pulpit, probably original, with tester. C19 pews. Panelled dado probably made from earlier pews The minster's house has C19 or early C20 fittings including a fold-down stair.

Listing NGR: SE2113602653

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Legacy System number:
334060
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Archaeological Journal in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 137, (1980), 99

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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