Cartledge Hall

House. Built in 1492, enlarged and remodelled in the late 16th century, with later alterations and additions. Constructed of coursed squared coal measures sandstone with ashlar dressings. The building features two external stone stacks with coupled diagonal chimneys and three ridge stacks with single diagonal chimneys. Coped gables with moulded kneelers support stone slated roofs.

The building follows an L-plan layout with a lobby entrance opening onto a baffle of the central hearth. The south elevation has twin gables. The left-hand gable is stone coped and contains two three-light recessed chamfer mullioned windows, each with a transom, and one three-light recessed chamfer mullioned window above, set below a horizontal dripmould. The right-hand gable is set back and features a five-light recessed chamfer mullioned window with transom to the ground floor and a doorway with chamfered quoined surround and a 19th-century panelled door. A 19th-century single-storey range extends from the east end of the main elevation, incorporating a relocated two-light chamfer mullioned window, a cart entrance with timber lintel opening into a recessed 20th-century porch.

The west elevation displays two external stacks with set-offs, a coped parapet, and a moulded stringcourse. Between the stacks the stonework has been reconstructed. An inserted six-light recessed chamfer mullioned window with transom is positioned in the centre, with a five-light window above. Flanking the ground-floor window is a two-light recessed chamfer mullioned window to the south and a single-light window with chamfered surround to the north. Each stack contains a small triangular window to the first floor in the inner return wall, lighting closets or garderobes. South of the south stack is a two-light recessed chamfer mullioned window at first-floor level, and to the north of the north stack, a single-light window. The north gable end has three-light recessed chamfer mullioned windows at both ground and first-floor levels.

The rear elevation includes a gabled porch in the angle between the two ranges with a two-light recessed chamfer mullioned window and a doorway with quoined surround. To the north is a 20th-century doorway flanked by small square lights and a tiny round-arched window. The return wall has a 20th-century window with wooden lintel and a three-light window above within a gabled dormer. An offshut to the east has massive stone flags to the roof.

Interior

The entrance porch contains a decorative plaster ceiling of approximately 1620, removed from the now demolished Greenhill Hall in Sheffield. The hall features 17th-century square panelling that incorporates a casing for a water clock. A stone-flagged floor with a built-in window seat complements the hall's bay window. The central hearth retains a reclaimed surround, formerly fitted with a timber bressumer and heck post. A doorway at the side of one fireplace opens onto the former stone window stair, now overlaid with timber treads. A complete winder stair opens off the opposite side of the hall.

The south-west room is distinguished by a richly ornamental plaster ceiling of approximately 1620 with a decorated plaster frieze, 17th-century square panelling, and a chimney-piece carved with a relief of the Fall of Man. A legend above from Attercliffe Hall in Sheffield reads "Whatsoever thou dost take/in hande thinke of the ende and seldom shalt thou ofend" (sic). A salt cupboard is positioned to the south, and on the east wall a squint looks out onto the front door.

The north-west room contains a plain cavetto-moulded stone fireplace, with a similar example in the room above.

The first-floor west room and the room above the hall contain the substantial and rare remains of timber smoke hoods. The south-west first-floor room features a shallow segmental vaulted plaster ceiling with enrichments and reticulated panels to the centre part. A transverse vaulted bay to one side includes some additional imported plasterwork. 17th-century panelling with carved upper panels and a stone chimney-piece with stepped and cavetto-moulded surround occupy this space. The room over the hall contains the other half of the ceiling from Greenhill Hall. The two small south rooms have plain stone chimney-pieces with chamfered surrounds.

The house was subdivided into tenements in the early 20th century but was restored by the Doncaster family from 1947 onwards.