Kimberworth Manor House

Kimberworth Manor House is a manor house, largely of the 18th century, with some earlier fabric. The house is located off Church Street, Kimberworth, Rotherham. The date '1694' is inscribed on stones at the eaves. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with red ashlar-sandstone dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof. Originally L-shaped, the rear left angle was filled in with brick in the early 18th century. A two-storey, single-bay cottage was added to the left, with 20th-century additions to the rear that are not of particular interest.

The main house is three storeys high, with a partial cellar, and has five windows to the first floor. It features a plinth band and large quoins. The window surrounds are square-faced, with recessed mullions; casements with glazing bars are found on the ground and first floors, while the second floor has leaded lights. The central panelled door is set within a projecting, bead-moulded surround, with remains of a pulvinated frieze and peaked cornice. Flanking the door are two-light windows linked by a projecting, cavetto-moulded lintel band, with a blind window to the far right and a door in a chamfered, projecting surround to the far left. The first floor has a central single-light window, and other two-light windows, all linked by a cavetto-moulded lintel band. The second floor has three two-light windows with dripstones. Three gables each have a moulded surround to a blind bullseye opening and cavetto-moulded gable copings rising from four ashlar panels bearing numerals of the date. The rear elevation has a bolection-moulded door surround into a later brick addition, and two gables. The right return elevation has a two-gabled form similar to the front, with ground-floor windows to the right having lowered sills.

The cottage to the left is set back and features large quoins to the left; it has a three-light casement with shutters beneath a tall casement and a truncated brick end stack.

Inside the main house, a large elliptically-arched fireplace is found in a ground-floor room to the left. The present fireplace within the arch reuses a lintel inscribed 'WBA/1702'. The same room has a transverse beam with stopped chamfers and run-out stops. A particularly fine, elliptical balustrade rises to the staircase, featuring splat balusters and scratch-moulded newel posts with shaped finials. There are also some 18th-century features, including an imported Adam-style marble fireplace in a ground-floor room to the right, and a wall cupboard in the same room with four round-arched, fielded panels. A similar wall cupboard is located in the rear entrance hall. Two late 18th-century cast-iron fireplaces are present on the first floor. Some original doors and frames remain. Later alterations may conceal additional features of interest.