THE PHEASANTRIES IN BRETTON PARK

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
List Entry Name:: THE PHEASANTRIES IN BRETTON PARK
Statutory Address:: THE PHEASANTRIES IN BRETTON PARK, PARK LANE

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 342589
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)

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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.