Bowling House and attached Garden Walls to South East of Church Cottage

Bowling House and attached Garden Walls to South East of Church Cottage, Main Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240554
Date first listed:: 02-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: Bowling House and attached Garden Walls to South East of Church Cottage
Statutory Address:: Bowling House and attached Garden Walls to South East of Church Cottage, Main Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240554
Date first listed:: 02-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: Bowling House and attached Garden Walls to South East of Church Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Bowling House and attached Garden Walls to South East of Church Cottage, Main Street

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Bowling House and attached Garden Walls to South East of Church Cottage, Main Street

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 54868 03972

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 November 2021 to update text and reformat to current standards

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SPROTBOROUGH Cusworth OFF MAIN STREET (south east side) Bowling House and attached Garden Walls to South East of Church Cottage

II

Bowling House and attached garden walls. c17, 1727 and late C18. Brick and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Small rectangular plan bowling house, coursed rubble with irregular quoins and ashlar dressings. Single storey with basement. South-east front has basement doorway with wooden surround. The north-east front has a two-light chamfered mullion window to the basement and above a single window, now blocked, with a moulded ashlar surround. The north-west front has a single doorway, now blocked, also with moulded ashlar surround. This building had no roof at time of inspection.

Attached to the west comes a low 75 metres brick wall with stone coping, which is ramped and rises to a height of 3 metres to the north-west. The north-west side of the bowling green has a brick wall with stone coping, 75 metres long and 3 metres high with a central break containing a flight of eight stone steps. This wall stretches 90 metres along the north-east side with a 20 metre coursed rubble section.

The south-east low wall is very thick and low with broad stone coping. Attached to the south east are the walls of the rectangular kitchen garden. The north-east side is brick, 75 metres long and 3 metres in height with a small hole where a former conservatory stood. The south south-east and south-west walls are rubble, also 3 metres high.

Listing NGR: SE5486803972

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Legacy System number:: 382361
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.