60 AND 62, MAIN STREET

60 AND 62, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1132766
Date first listed:
21-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
60 AND 62, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address:
60 AND 62, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1132766
Date first listed:
21-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
60 AND 62, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address 1:
60 AND 62, MAIN STREET

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
60 AND 62, MAIN STREET

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

District:
Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Wentworth
National Grid Reference:
SK3843998340

Details

SK39NE
4/99

WENTWORTH
MAIN STREET
(north side)
Nos 60 and 62

GV
II

Houses. Core probably C16; encased C17 and C18; C19 and C20 alterations
and additions. Timber-framed; rubble sandstone walling, partly rendered;
stone slate roof. Irregular T-shaped plan incorporating 2-bay hall block
and 2-bay cross-wing. No 60 occupies cross-wing and adjacent bay of hall
block, No 62 occupies original end bay and an added bay. 2 storeys.
Roadside front (formed by side wall of cross-wing): quoins and irregular
rubble to ground floor, thinly-coursed stone above. 2 windows to each
floor: all renewed casements with glazing bars, lintels tooled as voussoirs.
Projecting brick end stack to right, recently rebuilt; another end stack
to front left roof slope. Small, single-storey, separately-roofed addition
to front left has 16-pane sash. Right return: exposed wallpost to right
corner of gable. C20 porch in angle with hall block; casement to each
floor of adjacent bay. No 62, to right, now rendered: C20 door flanked
by casements with glazing bars to each floor, shutters. Lower ridge with
end stacks. Single-storey addition to right. Left return: C20 porch to
right in angle with roadside addition. Adjacent bay of hall block has
shallow aisle projection with wall post exposed in return wall. Lean-to
addition to rear of No 62; to its right the infilled oak frame of a 3-light
mullioned window preserved within walling; head of a stud or wall-post
exposed above.

Interior: central posts and truss of cross-wing partially exposed; 1st-floor
beams resting on transverse mid-rail. Rest of framework largely obscured.
Adjoining bay occupied by No 62 has spine beam bearing traces of C16 or
C17 painting. A curved downbrace in original end wall of hall block at
1st-floor level, now plastered over, indicates an early constructional date.
Roof structure of No 62 reconstructed at shallower pitch.

Listing NGR: SK3843998340

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
335606
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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