BATTLEMENTED WALL INCLUDING TRIPLE ARCHWAY ALONG SOUTH SIDE OF THE WILDERNESS

BATTLEMENTED WALL INCLUDING TRIPLE ARCHWAY ALONG SOUTH SIDE OF THE WILDERNESS, WENTWORTH CASTLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191749
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:: BATTLEMENTED WALL INCLUDING TRIPLE ARCHWAY ALONG SOUTH SIDE OF THE WILDERNESS
Statutory Address:: BATTLEMENTED WALL INCLUDING TRIPLE ARCHWAY ALONG SOUTH SIDE OF THE WILDERNESS, WENTWORTH CASTLE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191749
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:: BATTLEMENTED WALL INCLUDING TRIPLE ARCHWAY ALONG SOUTH SIDE OF THE WILDERNESS
Statutory Address 1:: BATTLEMENTED WALL INCLUDING TRIPLE ARCHWAY ALONG SOUTH SIDE OF THE WILDERNESS, WENTWORTH CASTLE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BATTLEMENTED WALL INCLUDING TRIPLE ARCHWAY ALONG SOUTH SIDE OF THE WILDERNESS, WENTWORTH CASTLE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Stainborough
National Grid Reference:: SE3182002942

Details

STAINBOROUGH WENTWORTH CASTLE SE30SW 1/49 Battlemented wall including triple archway along south 18.3.68 side of the Wilderness GV II Entrance gateway, battlemented retaining wall and ha-ha. Probably 1738-39 for Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, (Wilkinson, pp397-8). Ashlar sandstone gateway, otherwise coursed, dressed sandstone and rubble walling. Gateway, known as Archer's Hill Gate, has plinth and impost band to 3 round- headed archways set in canted, rusticated walls with 7 ball finials; arches, now shored-up, retain iron gates. Wall to west forms southern boundary of The Wilderness and has embattled parapet. Wall to east is a low rubble retaining wall which links to dressed walling of convex ha-ha at south end of lawn to Wentworth Castle (q.v.). Ha-ha has projecting piers and ashlar copings. Wilkinson records instructions set out by the 1st Earl for the construction of ha-ha's during the winter of 1738-39.

J. Wilkinson, Worthies, Families and Celebrities of Barnsley and District, 1883, pp397-8.

Listing NGR: SE3182002942

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Sources

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Wilkinson, J , Worthies Families and Celebrities of Barnsley and the District, (1883)
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 South Yorkshire,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.