Woolley Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1968. A C17 House.
Woolley Manor
- WRENN ID
- half-column-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Woolley Manor, Woolley Lane, Silkstone
- OS grid reference
- SE 286 050
- Coordinates
- 53.54145, -1.56866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woolley Manor is a detached house dated 1628, although the hall range and left wing appear to be entirely from the 19th century, with 20th-century restoration. The building is constructed of thinly coursed squared rubble with quoins and features a stone slate roof. It has a lower hall range with two-bay gabled crosswings, creating an H-plan layout. The house is two storeys high, with an attic in the right wing.
The exterior includes double-chamfered windows with hoodmoulds. The hall range has a central doorway flanked by two-light windows, and a three-light window on the first floor. The left wing features two-light windows, while the right wing has a three-light window on the ground floor and a two-light window on the first floor, both with common hoodmoulds, as well as a two-light window in the attic. The gable copings are hollow-chamfered, supported by moulded kneelers, and there are paired stone brackets on the hall and left wing. Ashlar stacks with string courses and moulded cornices are present on the left wing and each end of the hall range.
The rear of the house has mainly been restored. The 17th-century wing has altered or enlarged windows, including tripartite windows on the ground floor and two-light windows on the first floor, both with decorative hoodmould stops, as well as a two-light window at the gable apex. The hall range's windows are 20th-century and square-cut. The doorway, which appears to have been reset, has a moulded surround and an arched panel above with raised letters reading "1628 VR NR." The 19th-century wing has a plain gable end. The right return features a three-light and a four-light window on the ground floor with a common hoodmould, along with an altered first-floor window. The left return has windows with two, three, and four lights.
Inside, there is a flat-baluster stair at the front of the right wing and a square-headed moulded fireplace in the same room.
Local climate
Woolley Manor receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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