Oakwood Hall Including Balustraded Retaining Wall Attached to Portico
OAKWOOD HALL INCLUDING BALUSTRADED RETAINING WALL ATTACHED TO PORTICO, MOORGATE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132717
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Oakwood Hall Including Balustraded Retaining Wall Attached to Portico
- Statutory Address:
- OAKWOOD HALL INCLUDING BALUSTRADED RETAINING WALL ATTACHED TO PORTICO, MOORGATE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132717
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Oakwood Hall Including Balustraded Retaining Wall Attached to Portico
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAKWOOD HALL INCLUDING BALUSTRADED RETAINING WALL ATTACHED TO PORTICO, MOORGATE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OAKWOOD HALL INCLUDING BALUSTRADED RETAINING WALL ATTACHED TO PORTICO, MOORGATE 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 43625 90959
Details
SK49SW ROTHERHAM MOORGATE ROAD (west side, off) 5/59 Oakwood Hall including balustraded retaining wall attached to portico - II Large house with attached wall, now offices of Rotherham Health Authority. 1856-59 for James Yates. Coursed, dressed sandstone, Welsh slate roof. Double-pile plan with contemporary wing to right, set back; various additions to rear. 2 storeys, 1:3:1 bays. Plinth. Central part breaks forward and has band-rusticated ashlar walling to ground floor. 4-pane sashes throughout. Stone steps to colonnaded Doric portico with paired front columns, plain frieze and mutule cornice surmounted by balustrade with end dies and gadrooned urns. 2-bay returns of portico have attached single columns, entablature and balustrade as front (no urns). Entablature returns above flanking windows of central part; balustrade cornice returns as sill band to lst-floor windows which have sill blocks and shouldered and eared architraves. Outer bays have shouldered and eared architraves to windows of each floor. lst-floor band and lst-floor sill band. Modillioned eaves cornice surmounted by balustrade with dies. Hipped roof with corniced stacks flanking central lantern, matching ridge stack to right. Wing to right, set back, comprises 2-bay link-block to 3-storey tower, archivolts to ground-floor windows, tower with hipped roof and cruciform stack. Returns of main range each have canted 2-storey bay. Curved retaining walls attached to each side of portico have balustrades with dies surmounted by gadrooned urns. Interior : inner entrance hall with tiled and marble floor; cantilevered staircase with cast-iron balustrade; arcaded landing. James Yates was a notable Rotherham industrialist being a partner of the Yates and Haywood foundry. C19 directories show that he had moved from Carr House to Oakwood Hall by 1859. Oakwood Hall served as a hospital during and after the 1914-18 war.
Listing NGR: SK4362590959
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335694
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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