Barbot Hall
In 1300 Thomas de Barbot was tenant in chief of half of the Manor of Greasbrough which had been given to Roger de Busli in 1066. By 1379 the Barbots had been reduced to farmer rank and the Povey family held the half manor. At this time there must have been a notable building which historians have designated Old Barbot Hall. In 1522 Brian Povey sold the hall to Robert Gargrave, who sold it to Thomas Wentworth in 1525.
The present Barbot Hall is situated between Rotherham and Greasbrough and was built about 1800 to replace the older building. The house belonged to the Wentworth Estate and was at times used as a Dower House (where they used to ship off the widowed mother of the title-holder to get her out of the way). At other times it was let to tenants, Bosvilles, Chambers, Ellisons. The Moorhouse family were resident until 1983 when fire destroyed the east wing and the roof.
The house was purchased in 1986 and then restored by Dr Hamid Husain. Asif who grew up in the Hall has been in touch and has let me know a bit more about the history of Barbot Hall:-
"There is quite a lot of history attached to it, connecting especially with Lord Howard of Effingham who lived in it. One thing I feel I should correct though. You say that it was rebuilt to replace an older building which is now the farm. I have read this in other places too. But the original source of this information was an old lady (now passed away), whom I used to know since she was chair of the local historical society, but who had no particular qualifications for making such claims. In fact, somewhere, there is an ancient etching of a house in Elizabethan times sitting on the same spot as the current house, and you can ALSO see the farm. Moreover the basement of the house, as far as genuine historians are concerned, is considerably older than the current house. In other words, yes the house was rebuilt in Georgian times, but a much older place has been on the same site and bearing the same name for centuries before that."