1300s – 1400s

William Riche and his descendants are recorded as living in Carlecotes after being given land by William the Conqueror.

Earliest records of Carlecotes Hall, which at the time would have been a manor house, was 1379 when a William Riche occupied the house and was paying three times the average tax at the time.

The Riches lived at Carlecotes until 1400 (according to Irwin Slater, Historian), before moving to nearby Bullhouse Hall.

1500s

F. Irwin Slate states that ‘Carlecotes then passed to the Marsden family who were ‘at Carlecotes in 1510’, and probably until around 1566, based on the will of Edmund Marsden of Carlecotes dated to that year.

Johana Wordsworth (poet William Wordsworth’s great, great, great grandmother) married Edmund Marsden of Carlecotes (Hall) in the late 1500s.

The Hall has a priesthole which could have been used during the Reformation.

1600s

In 1639 William Wordsworth and his wife Ann Haigh bought the hall from a Richard Littlewood, before immediately selling it to Ann’s brother Francis Haigh. Francis Haigh married Ann Wordsworth.

William Wordsworth and Francis Haigh were witnesses to Captain Adam Eyre’s (made famous by Adam Eyre’s diary) will.
Captain Adam Eyre regularly visited Francis Haigh of Carlecotes on his horse Scueball (as mentioned in Captain Adam Eyre’s diary).
On January 20 1649, Francis Haigh of Carlecotes Hall and Adam Eyre of Hazlehead Hall were said to have travelled to London together to see the execution of Charles I.

It is reported in the Penistone Almanack that one of Cromwell’s generals stayed at Carlecotes Hall.

1700s

Carlecotes Hall was owned by John Grieves and his descendants.

1840s

The hall was sold to John Chapman and remained in the same family for over 130 years.  During this time, alterations were made by George Shaw of Saddleworth, a famous architect, including adding the 7-light, canted bay windows on the medieval Long Room.

1857

The Chapman family built St Anne’s Church as a place of worship for the family and local community.

1869

John Chapman commissions a bust of himself by Sir Thomas Brock, who later went on to create the world-famous statue of Queen Victoria outside Buckingham Palace.

1900s

On the death of John Chapman the hall passed to Jack Chapman and then to Wing Commander JSL Adams (Commanding Officer 41 Squadron, 1937-1939), nephew of Jack.
It then passed to Isabel Eyton, daughter of May Chapman (daughter of John Chapman), who was born and grew up at Carlecotes Hall and her son Robert.

1971

Henry Spencer & Sons estate agents hold a sale in a marquee in the Hall grounds and all the original furniture and contents of the property are sold.  This included many famous works of art including an ink on paper of The Crucifixion by Van Dyck and Rubens’  ‘The Descent from the Cross’. Other notable works that were sold in 1973 include ‘The Rent Day’ by Sir David Wilkie RA, which was hung in the Oak Room at Carlecotes Hall.

An interesting artefact sold here was the Ceremonial Dress of Sir Richard Bigland, Knight of the most honourable order of Bath, emblazoned with the Royal Coat of Arms 1793.  This is now held in the Royal College of Arms, London.

The hall was then bought by Robin Fulke Morgan-Giles and his wife Joyce, from Robert Eyton.

1984

The Hall is bought by Duncan Sharpe, a former footballer with Barnsley FC and his wife Pat.

2014

The house is bought by a family which has farmed in the village for over 60 years.

2016

A letter is found behind a 15th/16th century beam in the Hall.  It states: “Painted and varnished June 16th by Mr Taylor of Mottram near Manchester and at the time of the war between the allied powers of England and France and the Emperor of all the Ottomans, 1855.” It was placed behind the later panelling of the beam during the Crimean War (1853 – 1856).