Fishlake is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The parish contains 13 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at GradeI, the highest of the three grades, and the others are at GradeII, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Fishlake and the surrounding area. The listed buildings include a church, the remains of two medieval crosses, houses and cottages, a farmhouse, farm buildings, two former windmills, a road bridge, and a pinfold.
The church was extended and altered through the years, particularly in the 14th and 15th centuries, and it was restored in 1854–57. It is built in magnesian limestone, and has roofs of lead and Welsh slate. The church consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel with a north organ chamber and a south chapel, and a west tower embraced by the aisles. The tower has four stages, angle buttresses, and a west doorway with a pointed arch, over which is a large five-light window. In the third stage is a niche containing a statue of St Cuthbert under a crocketedcanopy, and in the top stage are two-light bell openings, a clock face, gargoyles, and an embattledparapet with eight crocketed pinnacles. The south doorway dates from the 12thcentury, and has four orders elaborately decorated with carvings of foliage, heads, animals and figures.[2][3]
The remains of the cross stand by the junction with Far Bank Lane, and are in magnesian limestone. They consist of a square socket stone with domed chamfer stops on each corner, and a shaft with elongated pyramidal chamfer stops.[4][5]
The cross, which has been re-set on three later steps, is by the junction with Pinfold Lane, and is in magnesian limestone. It has a square base with a deep chamfer, and an octagonal boss. The shaft is square, tapering and chamfered. On the south side is a benchmark.[6]
The house and the outbuilding on the left are in red brick, with dentilledeaves courses, and pantile roofs with copedgables and shaped kneelers. The house has two storeys and three bays, and a central segmental-arched doorway with a dated keystone. The windows are casements with keystones, and the window above the doorway is blocked. The outbuilding contains two doorways, a horizontally-sliding sash window, lozenge-shaped vents, and two hatches.[8]
A combination farm building, it is in red brick with a pantile roof. It consists of a two-storey L-shaped range including stables, a cowhouse with a hayloft, and a four-bay barn with a three-bay return. On the east side are two single-storey three-bay open-fronted sheds.[9]
The remains of the windmill are in red brick, partly roughcast. They consist of a two-storey cone containing a doorway and segmental-arched windows.[10]
The farmhouse is in red brick on a plinth, with rusticatedquoins, a floor band, a mouldedeavescornice, and a pantile roof with copedgables and kneelers. There are two storeys, five bays, the middle three bays projecting, a two-storey extension receded on the left, and a rear wing. Above the central doorway is a re-set dated plaque, and the windows are casements with double keystones.[4][11]
A red brick house with cogged eaves, and a pantile roof with copedgables and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys, five bays, and a single-storey extension on the right. On the front are two segmental-arched doorways, one blocked. The windows in the ground floor and in the extension are casements, and in the upper floor are horizontally-sliding sash windows.[12]
The road bridge carries Fishlake Nab over the River Don. It is in sandstone and consists of two segmental arches. The central pier has triangular cutwaters rising to pedestrian refuges. The bridge has voussoirs, a chamfered band, and copedparapets, the parapet and abutment walls angled out.[13]
A row of three red brick houses on a plinth, with an eaves band, and a pantile roof with copedgables and kneelers. There are two storeys and seven bays. The doorways have fanlights, and the windows are sashes.[14]
The remains of the windmill are in red brick, and consist of a truncated cone with four storeys. The building contains a doorway on the south side, and square-headed openings in each floor.[15]
The pinfold is a rectangular enclosure surrounded by a red brick wall with copings in limestone and sandstone. The wall is about 1.75 metres (5ft 9in) high, and has a gate opening on the southeast side.[16]
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