Barn Immediately To East Of Marsh Hills Farmhouse

SYKEHOUSE SYKEHOUSE ROAD SE 61 NW (south side) 2/90 Barn immediately to east of Marsh Hills Farmhouse GV II P Barn. Dated 'R E / 1703'. Rubble stone plinth to red brick in English garden wall bond, pantile roof. Low, 2 storeys, 5 bays. Rubble and brick plinth. Central C20 boarded doors beneath segmental arch with chamfered ashlar keystone bearing date and initials. 2 rows of slit vents and a decorative lozenge-shaped vent over the doors. A boarded hatch set beneath the eaves on each side. Dentilled eaves course. Rear: central door beneath wooden lintel and flat brick arch in shallow projection under catslide roof. Interior: re-roofed with pattern-book king-post trusses. Fishlake parish registers record the marriage of Richard learson to Elizabeth Hudson in 1690 and of Richard Peck to an Elizabeth in 1698; one of these couples may therefore be the builders of this barn and a former occupant of Marsh Hills Farmhouse (q.v.). South Yorkshire County Ancient Monuments and Site Record, Sheffield, Primary Index No 2175.

Listing NGR: SE6406517254