BOATHOUSE AT NORTH END OF UPPER FISH POND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192774
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: BOATHOUSE AT NORTH END OF UPPER FISH POND
Statutory Address:: BOATHOUSE AT NORTH END OF UPPER FISH POND

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192774
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: BOATHOUSE AT NORTH END OF UPPER FISH POND
Statutory Address 1:: BOATHOUSE AT NORTH END OF UPPER FISH POND

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:: BOATHOUSE AT NORTH END OF UPPER FISH POND

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

District:: Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Sprotbrough and Cusworth
National Grid Reference:: SE 54927 03859

Details

SE5493 0385 SPROTBROUGH CUSWORTH PARK

7/145 Boathouse at north end of Upper Fish Pond

II

Boathouse. Mid C18 for the Wrightson family of Cusworth Hall (q.v.). Limestone rubble and boulders. In grotto style. Segmentally-arched entrance to round-ended, vaulted recess admitting water from the landscape lake. Arch is of 2 orders of roughly-hewn.boulders. Vault rusticated by pendant through-stones. Upper surface firms landscaped mound.

Probably a part of the 1763 landscape scheme carried out by Richard Woods, surveyor of Chertsey in Surrey (Smith, p17).

G. Smith, An Illustrated History of Cusworth Hall and the Battie-Wrightson Family, 1976 ed.

Listing NGR: SE5492703859

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Legacy System number:: 334566
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Smith, G , An Illustrated History of Cusworth Hall and the Battle-Wrightson Family, (1976)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 South Yorkshire,

Legal

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