Castle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1964. A C16 - early C17 House.

Castle Cottage

WRENN ID
spare-nave-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Constituency
Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1964
Type
House
Address
Castle Cottage, 6 and 8, Folderings Lane, Stocksbridge
OS grid reference
SK 271 968
Coordinates
53.46747, -1.59208
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Castle Cottage is a house that has been converted from two separate dwellings. It dates from the 16th to early 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the 19th century. The building is constructed of deeply coursed rough ashlar gritstone, with later work featuring more thinly coursed rubble. It has a stone slate roof and a two-room plan, with a later block added to the front left.

The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows on the first floor. The older part of the building is on the right, featuring a 20th-century part-glazed door set in a deeply chamfered quoined surround with a Tudor-arched lintel. To the left, there is a blocked three-light window in a moulded surround with recessed cavetto-moulded mullions, and a small two-light window beneath the eaves with a similar surround, but no mullion, which has been replaced with a 20th-century casement. The left side also has altered 19th-century openings and additions.

There are ashlar end stacks, with the left stack corniced. On the right return, there is a blocked four-light window on the ground floor that matches the front, and a part-blocked first-floor window with three round-headed lights featuring cavetto-moulded mullions and sunk spandrels. The building is regarded as a remnant of Bolsterstone Castle.

Local climate

Castle Cottage receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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