Car or Carr House
Car (or Carr) House stood on Carr Hill on the way to Greasbrough. The name is first mentioned in 1347 as Kerhous when some building worthy of note must have stood on the site. The land belonged to Monk Bretton Priory and it seems likely that the Priory's agent lived there. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s the property passed through the Ramsden, Wyrall, Rokeby, Darcy and Westby families to the Gills. The Gills were prominent in the Civil War and John Gill was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1692. One of the old chapels in the parish church before the Reformation was Our Lady of the Car and there are many mentions of Car House at various points in the History of Rotherham. Presumably the house was rebuilt from time to time. Certainly there was a major rebuild in the early 19th Century c. 1815.
The house was sold by the Gills and by 1825 was the residence of William Fenton, a coalmaster. From 1845 it was the residence of James Yates, and from 1858 of George Hague who was a partner in the firm who owned the Car Hill Colliery. By 1871 it had become the home of the Rhodes family. In the Twentieth Century it was divided into four dwellings and the new gasworks built in 1939AD was rather too close for comfort. It was eventually demolished in 1964 and the site is now covered by a road.