Hooton Roberts is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The parish contains nine listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Hooton Roberts and the surrounding countryside. The listed buildings consist of a church, farmhouses and farm buildings, a public house and an associated former coach house, a rectory, and a milepost.
The church was extended and altered through the centuries, particularly following a fire in 1700, and it was restored in 1875–76. It is built in sandstone with slate roofs, and consists of a nave, a partial south aisle with a lean-to porch in the angle, a chancel with a south chapel, and a west tower. The tower is in Perpendicular style and has two stages, a three-light west window with a depressed Tudor arched head, a southeast stair tower, a clock face, two-light bell openings, an embattledparapet with crocketedpinnacles, and a weathervane. The chancel and chapel also have embattled parapets.[2][3]
At one time a dower house, later converted into a public house, it is in sandstone with quoins and hipped roofs of stone slate and tile. There are two storeys, a main block with a double-depth plan and three bays, and flanking single-bay wings. In the left bay of the main block is a porch with a bracketed cornice and a peaked blocking course. Most of the windows are sashes, and in the right wing are tripartite windows. At the rear is a blocked Tudor arched doorway, and windows with mouldedmullions.[2][4]
The garden wall and doorway are in sandstone. The doorway has a round arch with mouldedvoussoirs, above which is a string course and a shaped gable with finials, including a carved head. The wall on the left of the archway has triangular copings and runs for about 20 metres (66 ft), and to the right it has flat copings and runs for about 5 metres (16 ft).[5]
The barn is in sandstone with quoins, stone slate eaves courses, and a pantile roof with chamferedgablecopings and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys, and six bays. It contains wagon entrances, blocked slit vents, and hatches.[6]
The rectory incorporates earlier material, and was extended in the 19th century. It is in sandstone, with quoins, and a pantile roof with copedgables. The original part has two storeys and an attic, three bays, and a rear stair wing. To the left is a later two-storey cross-wing, and to the right is an added bay. The porch has a tiled roof, and the doorway has an architrave, voussoirs, and a keystone. The windows are sashes, some with keystones. In the cross wing are mullioned windows with lintels cut to resemble voussoirs and keystones, and in the rear wing is a Venetian window.[7]
The farmhouse is in sandstone, with quoins, and a roof of Welsh slate with some stone slate, and chamferedgablecopings with shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and an attic, a front range of five bays, and a rear wing on the right. The central doorway has an architrave, and is flanked by cantedbay windows. In the upper floor are sash windows, and the right return contains two-light mullioned windows.[8]
The barn, which has been converted for residential use, is in sandstone with quoins and a pantile roof. There are three storeys and ten bays. On the north side is a segmental-arched doorway, extending from the south side is an apsidalhorse engine house, and in both fronts are segmental-arched windows.[9]
The coach house and stable block have been converted for residential use. The building is in sandstone on a plinth, with quoins, a sill band, an eaves band, paired gutter brackets, and hipped stone slate roofs. The stable block has two storeys and three bays, a single-storey rear wing, and a single-storey two-bay coach house to the left. In the centre of the stable block is a wide doorway, the windows are casements, and at the ends of the upper floor are oculi. The coach house contains two segmental-arched carriage entrances with quoined surrounds.[10]
The milepost is on the northeast side of Hooton Road (B6090 road). It consists of a sandstone pillar with cast iron overlay, and has a triangular section and a rounded top. On the top is inscribed "BRAMPTON BIERLOW & HOOTON ROBERTS ROAD"" and "HOOTON ROBERTS"", and on the sides are the distances to Doncaster, Conisbrough, Hooton Roberts, Barnsley, and Wentworth.[11]
