Warsop Parish Centre

Warsop Parish Centre, originally Warsop Old Hall, dates back to the 14th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 15th, 16th, and 18th centuries. It was converted into a parish centre in 1972. The building is constructed of coursed squared rubble stone with dressed stone details, featuring steep pitched pantile roofs and ashlar dressings. It has two gable and one ridge stack. The overall layout is a “C” shape.

The east front has a blocked doorway on the left, flanked by a casement and two flush mullioned casements. Further along, there is a louvred opening and two casements. Above, a casement in a moulded reveal is flanked by a plain casement and two flush mullioned casements, with two dormers above again. The barn's east gable has a square breather. The north wall of the barn, rebuilt in 1972, has three rubble buttresses and two central blocked doors with full-height glazed panels replacing former barn doors, with two breathers above. The west gable has a blocked door and a blocked opening above. The south side has a 20th-century door and light to the left, followed by three blocked doors, then a French window with an overlight under a relieving arch. Above, a blocked 14th-century window is visible. The west front features a 20th-century external wooden stair and 20th-century windows. A rear wing to the west has two coped gables with kneelers.

The north side of the wing has a casement with a segmental head, flanked by doors (the one to the right also having a segmental head). Above, a chamfered mullioned casement is flanked by a similar blocked casement, with a 19th-century brick lean-to addition with a slate roof to the west. The south front incorporates a two-storey canted bay window with a crenellated parapet, a mullioned casement, an external stack, a chamfered pointed blocked doorway with a restored Gothic overlight, and a projecting gable with two leaded mullioned casements. Above, a 5-light 15th-century lancet with elliptical heads and moulded reveals and hood mould is flanked by single, similar lancets. Further along are three unequally spaced trefoil-headed single lancets, and then a blocked chamfered pointed lancet.

Inside, features include a chamfered 14th-century aumbry with a pair of square, chamfered mullioned openings above it, and a single large chamfered doorway. The barn contains a restored 7-bay principal rafter roof with cambered tie beams, butt purlins, collars, wind braces, and flat rafters. A half-height 19th-century loft creates a gallery at the east end. This building is reputed to be the most important medieval house in the county, and was likely the seat of the De Sutton family, passing through ownership from John Nunnes of London to Sir John de Roos, and later to the Earls of Rutland. It was latterly a farmhouse.