Whitely Hall incorporates an interior lintel inscribed "William Parker / Made This Worke / 1584' (listed buildings online) and dates from the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The earliest record for the site is from April 20th 1587 as follows, "William Parker . . . Surrendered into the hands of the lord one capital messuage called Launderhouse alia Whitley Hall . . . With the gardens, orchards, smelting-house (ustrina), dovecote and water corn mill (moledo aqatico granatico" (htttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~exy1/fh_material/Wheat_collection.txt - online transcription of court rolls of Sheffield manor). This indicates an already well established property engaged in both horticulture and industry in the 16th century. In a further court session in 1617 a Francis Parker surrendered "one water mill and one kiln" in Whiteley" (Miller 1949:94). The current property, now converted into an exclusive hotel, still features extensive grounds within which two dams exist, maintained as garden features. Significant legibility of late medieval property. Important early industrial site.