Millhouse, Dissenters Chapel and former Minster's house at Bullhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1965. A C17 Chapel.

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

WRENN ID
quiet-wall-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Barnsley
Constituency
Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 1965
Type
Chapel
Address
Millhouse, Dissenters Chapel and former Minster's house at Bullhouse, Manchester Road, Penistone
OS grid reference
SE 211 026
Coordinates
53.52014, -1.68269
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Millhouse, Dissenters Chapel, and the former Minster's house at Bullhouse is a non-conformist chapel, originally Presbyterian, dated 1692, with a cottage built slightly later. It was constructed for Elkanah Rich of Bullhouse Hall. The building features deeply-coursed stone and a stone slate roof, with a rectangular plan that includes a single storey and five bays, along with a two-storey cottage attached to the rear right.

The chapel has a chamfered plinth and a central gabled porch with an entrance that has an elliptical head and a moulded surround. The inner doorway features a shallow segmental head with an inscribed keystone that reads "APRIL 18 ANOD 1692." The entrance is adorned with a heavy, four-panel, double studded door. Each side of the entrance has double-chamfered cross-windows with round-arched lights and sunken spandrels. There is a later buttress between the fourth and fifth bays. The building also includes a moulded eaves cornice, moulded gable copings on cut kneelers, and ball finials at the apexes. The rear elevation is plain, while the left return has a 3 + 3 light transomed window. The right return features two cross-windows similar to the front, and the cottage, which is slightly set back, has a two-light window on each floor, detailed as before. The entrance to the cottage is within a later lean-to addition on the right side, which includes a four-panel door.

Inside, the chapel has a plaster ceiling and three cased tie-beams that are braced to short wall posts on stone corbels. There is a hexagonal panelled pulpit, likely original, with a tester, along with 19th-century pews and a panelled dado probably made from earlier pews. The Minster's house contains 19th or early 20th-century fittings, including a fold-down stair.

Local climate

Millhouse, Dissenters Chapel and former Minster's house at Bullhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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