Woodthorpe Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North East Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
Woodthorpe Hall
- WRENN ID
- lesser-hall-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North East Derbyshire
- Constituency
- North East Derbyshire MP: Louise Sandher-Jones (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Woodthorpe Hall, Fanshawe Gate Lane, Holmesfield, S18 7WA
- OS grid reference
- SK 314 787
- Coordinates
- 53.30483, -1.52893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodthorpe Hall is a house dating from the 17th century with later additions. It is built from coursed coal measures sandstone and features quoins, coped gables with moulded kneelers, ashlar ridge and gable stacks, and a stone slated roof. The house is designed in an L-shape.
On the east elevation, it is two storeys high with attics and consists of five bays. The central doorway is flanked to the south by a single light 17th-century opening and to the north by a three-light recessed and chamfered mullioned window. At the north end, there is a former doorway with a quoined surround and a massive lintel, now blocked to form a two-light window. A three-light chamfered mullioned window is located at the south end, and all windows are beneath a continuous dripmould that steps up over the blocked doorway. The first floor features two three-light and three single light windows, all from the 17th century, also beneath a continuous dripmould. There are two gabled dormers in the attic, each with copings and kneelers, and three-light mullioned windows beneath plain dripmoulds.
The south elevation has five bays with a gable to the east and features single, two-light, and three-light mullioned windows beneath continuous dripmoulds. There are two gabled attic dormers, each with three-light mullioned windows. An off-centre single-storey gabled porch has a Tudor-arched lintel. The ground floor windows have been increased in depth.
On the north elevation, a two-storey porch from Owlerton Hall in Sheffield has been added, featuring a rusticated ashlar surround with a massive projecting keyblock above a cambered doorway head, all beneath a plain dripmould. Above the doorway is a three-light chamfered mullioned window with a plain dripmould, and above this is a plaque bearing a coat of arms.
Inside, there are two notable 17th-century hearths and exposed ceiling timbers in the ground floor rooms. The attic rooms contain exposed cruck trusses, which are either raised or upper crucks, apparently reused from an earlier structure.
Local climate
Woodthorpe Hall receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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