Genn House With Attached Outbuilding and Garden Wall
GENN HOUSE WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND GARDEN WALL, 130 AND 132, GENN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315057
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Genn House With Attached Outbuilding and Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- GENN HOUSE WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND GARDEN WALL, 130 AND 132, GENN LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315057
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Genn House With Attached Outbuilding and Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GENN HOUSE WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND GARDEN WALL, 130 AND 132, GENN 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:
- GENN HOUSE WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND GARDEN WALL, 130 AND 132, GENN 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:
- SE3394104533
Details
SE30SW
1/76
11.11.66
WORSBROUGH
GENN LANE
(south side)
Nos 130 and 132 (Genn House) with attached outbuilding and garden wall
(house-part of item formerly listed as part of Genn House, Barn at Genn House)
GV
II
Farmhouse with attached outbuilding and garden wall. c1700 for Dr. William
Elmhirst (d1715) (Wright p29), house extensively rebuilt 1964. Coursed,
squared sandstone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys with attics, 3 windows to lst floor;
house linked by external steps to small outbuilding on right, front garden wall
incorporates dog kennel beneath mounting steps at front right corner. House: large
quoins. Central 6-panel door in quoined surround beneath date plaque inscribed
'1964'. Outer bays have sashes with glazing bars in square-faced surrounds,
3 similar 1st-floor sashes in bonded ashlar surrounds. Shaped kneelers, chamfered
gable copings. Renewed stone end stacks with cornices. Set back to right and
linked by external stone steps the outbuilding has a pair of quoined doorways, that
to right with curved-soffit lintel, the other with truncated lintel and part-blocked
2-light mullioned window on its left. 1st-floor hatch over right-hand door.
Garden wall has later side gate in right return and oval entrance to dog kennel
beneath mounting steps in front-right angle.
Interior: C18 balustraded staircase. Name commemorates John Genn of Ouslethwaite
who married a daughter of John Elmhirst in c1320.
J. G. Wright, Worsbrough: In Times Past, 1983.
Listing NGR: SE3394104533
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333951
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wright, J G, Worsbrough in Times Past, (1983), 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.
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