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| Wayside Cottage |
Continuing my investigation of the historic architecture of Hooton Pagnell, having left the village cross, I came across further examples of yellowish sandy limestone used in old farm buildings and boundary walls, where the Cadeby Formation bedrock forms their foundations.
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| Foundations of the Cadeby Formation bedrock in walling |
Making my way north along the B6422/Elmsall Lane, the late C17/early C18 Grade II Listed barn - approximately 10 m to the north of Mappleyard Farmhouse - was next on my list to photograph for the British Listed Buildings website.
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| The barn to the norrh-west of Mappleyard Farmhouse |
Historic England describes it as “Late C17 - early C18. Limestone rubble, stone slate eaves course to pantile roof”, which is just another example of the typical building materials used in the vernacular architecture of Hooton Pagnell and the nearby village of Hickleton.
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| Roadside Cottage |
Roadside Cottage is an extensively altered late C16/early C17 cottage, which Historic England thinks could have also included a stable. It is of no great architectural merit, but its rubble limestone walling and red pantile roof contribute to the aesthetic character of the village.
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| Appleloft Cottage |
On the opposite side of the road and set below the top of the escarpment, Appleloft Cottage is another example of an extensively altered C17 house, with a Welsh slate roof replacing the red pantiles during C19 or C20 work to the house.
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| The Old Forge |
The Old Forge is late C18/early C19 in date and is again built with limestone rubble walling, with stone slate eaves and a red pantile roof. When the Historic England list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 November 2021, the building was recorded as being unaltered and retaining brick hearths at each end of the workshop.
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| Forge Cottage |
Forge Cottage dates to the early C18 and is built in rubble walling, which has been partly rendered, with a replacement Welsh slate roof. It has a simple form with the gables having coping stones and kneelers, with a chimney stack at each end, which is quite typical of the period.
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| The Hostel |
The Hostel (1781) was extended in 1903, during the construction of the adjoining St. Chad’s Hostel, which is built in an Arts and Crafts style and has an upper storey that has exposed timbers and plastered panels in a Tudor style. It is unusual amongst the other houses in the village, in that it utilises relieving arches above the windows instead of lintels, with a quatrefoil panel that incorporates a datestone.
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| The 1903 bar and restaurant |
The new St. Chad’s Hostel building, now the 1903 bar and restaurant, was opened by the vicar of Hooton Pagnell, Revd Frederick Samuel Willoughby, with the support of Julia Warde-Aldam. It is the only building that I had seen in Hooton Pagnell that does not conform to the traditional pattern of a simple gabled house, built with limestone with stone slate or pantile roofs, but I think that that this is a very attractive feature of the village.
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| Home Farmhouse |
Home Farmhouse (1688), with coursed rubble walling, mullioned windows and a stone slate roof, provides another example of a farmhouse that is set at right angles to the road and aligned with the mediaeval system of narrow plots extending from the main road to a back lane.
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| Watchley Farmhouse |
I could only get a glimpse of the C17 barn to the north-east of Home Farmhouse and carried on to the late C17 Watchley Farmhouse, which is again set at right angles to the street. It has a familiar simple plan with gable ends and kneelers, but trees and creepers obscured views of the house and I couldn’t see the mullions described in the Historic England listing.
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| Rock Farmhouse |
The original agricultural nature of Hooton Pagnell had by now become increasingly evident and, crossing back to the west side of Elmsall Lane, Rock Farmhouse, which probably dates to the early C18, has another range of working farm buildings – as does the C17 Manor Farmhouse a little bit further along the east side of the road.
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| Manor Farmhouse |
Coming to the end of the village, which involved a walk of less than 500 metre from All Saints church, the next building on my list was the cowhouses and stables, with a hayloft, which are set alongside the main road to the north of Manor Farmhouse.
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| The farm building to the north of Manor Farmhouse |
The building, which is constructed of yellowish limestone, is mainly notable for its size and is Grade II Listed for its group value, but I was interested to see that it has some unusual triangular vents in the wall and that the southern end has foundations of thinly bedded limestone bedrock.
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| Traingular vents in the farm building wall |
In the South Yorkshire Historic Environment Characterisation, the archaeologist J.R. Magilton is quoted from the Doncaster District: an Archaeological Survey (1977) as describing the village as "probably the most spectacularly attractive village of the Doncaster District… very many of the village houses contain C17 or earlier elements".
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| Wayside Cottage |
My previous visits to Hooton Pagnell, to look at its geology, had left a lasting impression on me and having now explored the principal part of the village, I agree with these sentiments. With 50 minutes left before my bus arrived, I retraced my steps along Elmsall Lane to Clayton Lane to photograph Wayside Cottage (1770), which also has a quatrefoil panel set into the front elevation.
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| Twitchell Corner |
After looking at the bryozoan reef in the war memorial garden, which I shall describe later, I continued down Clayton Lane until I reached Twitchell Corner, a late C17 house with C18 and C19 alterations and additions, including an incongruous mock Tudor gable.
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| The old school |
Making my way south back on to the B6422, I carried on past the gateway to Hooton Pagnell Hall and the high boundary wall until I reached the garden house (1912-1923). Designed in the Arts and Crafts style, it is part of the work by Granville Streatfeild for Julia Warde-Aldam to the gateway and, although I didn’t realise this at the time, both are apparently built with Cotswold stone slate roofs.
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| The garden house |
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