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

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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