Description

PENISTONE CAT HILL LANE SE20NM (west side) 1/13 Cat Hill Farmhouse 23rd June 1965

GV II*

Farmhouse. 1634. Deeply-coursed dressed stone. Stone slate roof. Two-cell plan with projecting rear kitchen wing. Two storeys and attic. Near-symmetrical three-bay front. Chamfered plinth. Central two-storey gabled porch with elaborate doorway with moulded surround, imposts and deep shaped lintel. Hoodmould over with large moulded stops. 2-light window to 1st floor and a single light to gable apex. The left and right bays are both gabled. The left bay has a 6-light transomed parlour window with king mullion, a 4-light lst-floor window and a 2-light attic window. The right bay has a 4-light transomed ground-floor window and a 4-light lst-floor window both with ornamental hoodmould stops, diagonal to ground floor and heart-shaped to 1st floor. 2-light attic window. Moulded gable copings, roll-top parapets and finials. Two large square ashlar stacks, one central, in line with door, the other relating to the kitchen wing. Rear: extensive rebuilding, in keeping. Gabled kitchen wing projects on left. Right return: the left part is gabled with a 2-light transomed window to ground floor under a hoodmould with big square stops. The kitchen wing to right is of two near-symmetrical bays with central, Tudor-arched door with 3-light window to left and 2-light window to right, both transomed and all under continuous hoodmould which rises over the windows. Two 3-light windows to 1st floor. Interior: slightly cambered-arched fireplace with keystone and moulded surround in parlour. Wide elliptical-arched fireplace in kitchen.

Hunter states that the hall, formerly known as Catling Hall, was dated "I T 1634" (date not found at resurvey) and was occupied by the Sotwell family in the C17. Rev. J. Hunter, History of the Deanery of Doncaster and South Yorkshire, 1820. L. Ambler, Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire, 1913.

Listing NGR: SE2477605226

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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