Out and About
Whiston is situated , on the edge of the countryside.
It is ideal as a starting place for walks to Upper Whiston, Guilthwaite and beyond.
In and around the area are several places of note, including:
- Manorial Barn
- Parish Church - St Mary Magdalene
- Lych-gate erected in 1919, as the parish war memorial
- The Methodist Church situated on High Street in the heart of the village
- Newman School noted as a Listed Building.
Whiston Manorial Barn
- The wood used was felled sometime after the year 1214
- The timber used for this type of building was usually oak, one of the most common of the trees in the South Yorkshire area. It was usual to saw the wood while it was still green.
- The wood for the barn most likely came from nearby Treeton or Canklow woods .
- Whiston Long Barn is a good example of a 'post and truss' structure
- The barn is the oldest example of an agricultural building in the county
Image Source: The Making of The South Yorkshire Landscape, by Melvyn Jones
Address: Chaff Lane, Whiston, Rotherham, S60 4HE
Newman School
Although completed in 1939 by a local architect Geoffrey Raven,the building served wartime purposes before the first children were admitted in 1948. The school was officially opened on 21st October 1949 . Newman School was named after Sir George Newman, a Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health .
This open-air school was purpose- built to accommodate some physically-handicapped and partially-sighted children. It in in the main part - single-storey; the glazed panels in the south facing classrooms allowed maximum ventilation.
The school now caters for up to 115 pupils with special physical or medical needs
The Manor House
The original Manor House was early 16th century. It was extended in the early 17th century with more additions in the 18th century. In the National Monuments Record. It was described as:
Some internal timber framing; coursed dressed sandstone; C20 cement-tile roof. Irregular plan: 5-bay main range to right with cross-wing to left, single-room wing set back to far left. 2 storeys with partial cellars, total of 7 bays to entrance front. Main range: plinth, large quoins, 1st-floor band. Bay 2 has C20 door in architrave with dripstone set above band. To right, three 3-light square-faced mullioned windows to each floor have renewed casements with glazing bars; matching 2-light window above door has no mullion. To left a large 30-pane sash cuts through earlier opening and rises above band. Shaped kneelers, ashlar gable copings and renewed brick stack to right end of range. Truncated ashlar ridge stack to left of door and large corniced ridge stack to its right. Cross-wing: large C20 casement to each floor, ground-floor lintel band, 1st-floor window cuts through earlier opening. Shaped kneelers, chamfered gable copings. Lateral stack to left has renewed brick shaft. Wing projecting from left return has chamfered plinth and 2-light double-chamfered mullioned window to each floor, ground-floor window has dripstone. Shaped kneelers, chamfered gable copings and tall, corniced, ashlar end stack. Finial at junction of cross-wing and wing roofs. Some double-chamfered window openings to rear elevations and to end wall of wing. Interior: framing of 3-bay structure incorporated in cross-wing and partly visible at foot and head of present staircase; king-post roof trusses Loft space above adjacent bay of main range has simple king-post truss (no struts) and sections of stud partition adjacent to ridge stack (possible remains of smokehood).
The building is now a nursing home
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