Housley Hall

SK39N ECCLESFIELD HOUSLEY HALL LANE, (east side)

5/146 Housley Hall (formerly listed 25.4.69 as Housley Hall Farmhouse)

II

House. C15 core, C18 facade, rear rebuilt C19, renovated c1980. Some internal timber framing, rubble sandstone wings, ashlar central part, C20 cement-tile roof. U-shaped, symmetrical facade with projecting cross-wings. 2 storeys, 6 windows to first floor. Chamfered plinth to central part, large quoins to wings. Central panelled door in architrave with consoles and cornice. Flanking windows on both floors, all with flat voussoired arches and small- pane casements. Oval plaque above door on which is painted 'Housley Hall c1436'. Moulded eaves cornice forms gutter. Part rendered, corniced end stacks to main range. Wings have two windows to each floor all in architraves and with 32-pane sashes. Moulded kneelers return into eaves cornice, gable copings

Interior: right first floor room retains C15 hybrid crown-post roof trusses, now exposed. Central truss has cambered and chamfered tie beam with curved braces up to jowled-head crown post and clasping angled struts from tie beam to purlin. Braced collar purlin. Similar truss to rear retains wall posts and has steeply cambered tie beam. King post truss over hall block.

This may represent the house built by Thomas Rotherham (aka. Thomas Scot) 1423-1500 Archbishop of York from 1480 to 1500 and once Chancellor of England (until 1483). RCHM report, National Monument Record.

Listing NGR: SK3494196483