Listed Building: BARLBOROUGH OLD HALL (1335416)

Manor house. Dated 1618, C17, C18. Restored 1985. Attributed to Robert Smythson.Coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings and quoins. Pantile roof with four brick gable stacks and a brick ridge stack. Stone coped gables with moulded kneelers. Two storeys. H-plan. North elevation of five bays. Pair of Tudor-arched doorways with moulded surrounds and plank doors. To the right is a 3-light square section flush mullion window. To the left are two 2-light windows. The first floor has a 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion window, flanked by two 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows. The south elevation has a doorway with segmental- arched wedge brick lintel. On each side are three light recessed and chamfered mullion and transom windows, and between the door and one of the windows is a blocked single light window, with above it, a yet smaller blind window. The first floor has five 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows, all with plain hoodmoulds. East elevation of 2-2-2 bays, the outer projecting bays are gabled. The left gable has a pair of cross windows to the ground floor, two 2-light windows above, and two small blind windows in the gable. The right hand gable has a single and a 2-light window to the ground floor,two 2-light windows above, and two small blind windows in the gable. The recessed centre part has two 3-light Yorkshire sashes to the ground floor and two similar but smaller windows above. The west elevation has projecting gabled bays, blind, apart from one cross window. The recessed centre part has a 3-light mullion and transom window with a 3-light window above. Flanked by full height lean-to bays. The interior has stop chamfered beams. A north-west room has a rebuilt chamfered segmental-arched hearth. Another room has a steeper segmental arch. Four-centred arched doorways. Moulded cornice. Stone staircase at the south end. One upper room has a plaster overmantel with fluted pilasters and the date 1633. A second overmantel has tapering columns. A third plaster overmantel was covered at the time of re-survey. Sources: Mark Girouard 'Robert Smythson & The Elizabethan Country House' pp276-7. Listing NGR: SK4764577296