FERHAM HOUSE

FERHAM HOUSE, KIMBERWORTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192476
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: FERHAM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: FERHAM HOUSE, KIMBERWORTH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192476
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: FERHAM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FERHAM HOUSE, KIMBERWORTH ROAD

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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:: FERHAM HOUSE, KIMBERWORTH ROAD

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

District:: Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 41476 92800

Details

SK49SW ROTHERHAM KIMBEWORTH ROAD (south side) 5/53 Ferham House 19.10.51 II Large house now offices of Rotherham Health Authority. c1787. Attributed to John Platt (Colvin p641), for Jonathan Walker; C20 additions. Red brick in Flemish band, C20 cement-tile roof. 3 storeys with cellars, 3 x 5 bays; symmetrical facades. Entrance front: plinth. Porch has wide, panelled door and fanlight with decorative glazing bars flanked by narrow lights set between pilasters; pediment on 2 columns. Sashes with glazing bars to outer bays have projecting sills and architrave; small narrow sash to far right. lst-floor band and lst-floor sill band beneath central round-arched panel containing Ionic Venetian window and 2nd-floor window with sill blocks and swept-shouldered architrave to 6-pane sash. Outer lst-floor windows have sashes with glazing bars in corniced architraves. Short 2nd-floor windows in architraves with 6-pane sashes and matching casement to bay 1. Modillioned eaves cornice, central single-bay open pediment. Hipped roof, stacks removed. Addition to right in keeping with main range has curved wall with corniced opening (now casement) terminating at hipped-roof outbuilding with round-arched recesses. Left return: 3-storey canted-bay projection with pedimented doorcase to centre (now with sash). Shouldered architrave and segmental pediment to central lst-floor window. Right return: square projection has tripartite window to 1st floor and Diocletian window to 2nd floor; attached buildings not of special interest. Interior: cantilevered staircase with iron balustrade. Arcaded panels to lst-floor landing, decorative plaster ceiling to stair-well. Ground-floor room to rear left has elaborate cornice and good plaster ceiling with classical scenes. Adjacent room has semi-domed niches and plasterwork wall panels, including cherubs above door. Platt's journal, cited by Potts (p17), records the laying of vestibule and staircase floors at this house. This forms the basis for attribution although Platt is known to have worked on houses designed by others e.g. Clifton House (q.v.). H. Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840, 1978. J. D. Potts, Platt of Rotherham, Mason-Architects, 1700-1810, Sheffield, 1959.

Listing NGR: SK4147692800

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 335688
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 641
Potts, J D , Platt of Rotherham Mason-Architects 1700-1810, (1959)

Legal

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