The Pheasantries in Bretton Park
THE PHEASANTRIES IN BRETTON PARK, PARK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135464
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Pheasantries in Bretton Park
- Statutory Address:
- THE PHEASANTRIES IN BRETTON PARK, PARK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135464
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jun-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Pheasantries in Bretton Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PHEASANTRIES IN BRETTON PARK, PARK LANE
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:
- THE PHEASANTRIES IN BRETTON PARK, PARK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- West Bretton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2901912901
Details
SE21SE
8/93
22.11.66
WEST BRETTON
PARK ROAD
(south side, off)
The Pheasantries in Bretton Park.
GV
II
House now 2 dwellings. Dated 1749. Probably by Sir William Wentworth for
his own estate. Coursed squared stone with quoins. Stone slate roof. Two
storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay facade, the centre 3 bays breaking forward
slightly and pedimented. Well detailed and proportioned giant Tuscan
Venetian window, centrally placed, with glazing bars to upper part. Entrance
to left and right (the former now totally glazed) and a further blocked
entrance to left. Two former 2-light windows to 1st floor and each end bay
has a former 3-light window to each floor that to ground floor left now a
patio door. All mullions removed. C20 casements. Sundial in tympanum of
pediment, no gnomon. Hipped roof. Two ashlar stacks. Rear: later addition
to right. Quoined entrance with well-inscribed lintel "WW 1749" (William
Wentworth). Four 1st-floor windows formerly with centre mullions (one only
surviving).
Interior: not inspected.
N. Pevsner. The Buildings of England. 1967
Listing NGR: SE2901912901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342589
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
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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