St Anne'S Rest Home

BURGHWALLIS GRANGE LANE SE 51 SW (south side, off)

3/70 St. Anne's Rest Home GV II*

Large house now a rest home. Probably early C16, extended 1797 for George Anne (Miller, p293) and altered c1820 for Michael Anne; later additions. Rubble magnesian limestone, C20 cement-tile roof. 2 storeys with attics; H-plan C16 house with 5 x 1 bay late C18 range built parallel to southern cross-wing. Entrance front (to east): chamfered plinth, large quoins. Entrance in left (south) crossing of H-plan via a C19 Gothic Revival porch having shafts to moulded arch flanked by diagonal buttresses rising as spirelets; on right of, and above porch are sashes with glazing bars in quoined surrounds; 3-light, double-chamfered, mullioned attic window. Central recess, to right, has a large external stack corbelled out at lst-floor level with offset shoulders at eaves and shaft now without flues. Ground floor has two C20 casements in quoined surrounds on left of stack and similar window on right; to 1st floor on left of stack is another section of corbelled wall with sash to its left; to right of stack a centre-pivotted casement. Right cross-wing: 2-light, ground-floor window in quoined surround beneath relieving arch has an 8-pane sash and matching casement; lst-floor and attic openings as left cross-wing. Added C18 range, set forward on far left, has a tall sash with glazing bars beneath relieving arch to ground and 1st floors (both walled-up internally); attic storey of 1820 lit by 3-light, mullioned window. C19 kneelers and gable copings throughout, stacks at eaves on right of both left-hand wings. Rear: from internal angles of H-plan rise gabled 3-storey stair turrets with some 6-pane sashes and 3-light, mullioned attic windows. Left return: sashes with glazing bars in chamfered, quoined surrounds; cut-back cornice beneath 5 blind gables of 1820.

Interior: exposed C16 trusses over south cross-wing have principal rafters with straight-braced collars; 3 trusses over hall-block obscured; attic of hall-block contains a priests' hiding hole. Former home of the recusant Anne family. An early C19 sketch of the house shows the 1797 wing stuccoed and pedimented. Later additions to north not of special interest.

E. Miller, The History and Antiquities of Doncaster, 1804.

Listing NGR: SE5362711978