Ulley Grange

ULLEY PENNY HILL LANE SK48NE (north side) 6/130 Ulley Grange 29.3.68 II Large house. Dated 1722 with C18 and C19 additions to rear. For ---- Poynton. Ashlar sandstone, stone slate roof with Welsh slate to part of rear range. 2 storeys and attic, 5 x 3 bays with 2-storey C19 addition to rear left forming link to early C18 attached outbuilding. Main range: ashlar plinth, chamfered quoins. 2 square steps to 6-panel door and overlight with glazing bars in dentilled, bolection-moulded architrave, frieze inscribed ----- Poynton / 1722', consoles to deeply-overhanging cornice. Other bays have sashes with glazing bars in architraves; 1st-floor band, central 1st-floor window with moulded sill. Eaves cornice to hipped roof with 3 roof dormers having casements with glazing bars beneath triangular and segmental heads. Corniced ashlar stack to each side ridge, smaller corniced end stack on left. Rear: double-chamfered 3-light stair window has 2 transoms. Left return: blind cross window to 1st floor. Right return: unequally-hung 15-pane sashes to ground floor, the central window with cornice. 2nd floor sashes with glazing bars in recessed surrounds formerly with mullions and transoms. Set back on right: C19 hipped-roof wing forms link to C18 outbuilding having square-faced, mullioned windows of 3- and 2-lights on 2 floors, corniced ridge stack, external steps to coped end gable on right; the door in its right return with chamfered quoins. Interior not inspected. Samuel Buck of Rotherham purchased the manor of Ulley in 1721 and 1722 (Hunter, p178); a later C18 enclosure award map shows the Ulley Grange land to be allotted to Mr. Poynton. J. Hunter, South Yorkshire: the History and Topoqraphy of the Deanery of Doncaster, vol II, 1831.

Listing NGR: SK4661587574