Numbers 1 and 2 Well Houses
1 AN 2 WELL HOUSES, WELL HOUSES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151057
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 and 2 Well Houses
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AN 2 WELL HOUSES, WELL HOUSES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151057
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 and 2 Well Houses
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AN 2 WELL HOUSES, WELL HOUSES LANE
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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:
- 1 AN 2 WELL HOUSES, WELL HOUSES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wortley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 30612 00280
Details
WORTLEY WELL HOUSES LANE SE30SW (north end)
1/127 Nos 1 and 2 Well Houses
- II Pair of houses. Mid C17 and mid C18. Rubble sandstone and thinly-coursed sandstone, sheet asbestos and stone slate roofs. C17 house on left: 2 storeys, single room with outshut. C18 part on right set forward: L-shaped plan with outshut in rear angle,2 storeys with attics, 3 windows to 1st floor. C17 house: large quoins on left. Partly-quoined doorway to left has wood lintel; former 4-light, double-chamfered mullioned window to right now of 2 lights with central mullion only. Small window beneath eaves. Chimney pot to left end of ridge. Rear: 2-light double-chamfered window, mullion removed. C18 house: large quoins. Central doorway has projecting keystone worked on lintel, plain dripstone band; another doorway on left has plain ashlar surround. C20 casements flanking central door have projecting stone sills, window to left has flat-arched head, that to right a plain lintel. 1st floor: band, 2 windows as ground floor flanking narrow central window with flat arch. Shaped kneelers, chamfered gable copings. Central ridge stack with band. Left return: 2-light, square-faced attic window now blocked. Right return: band continues; blind attic window. Interior of Cl7 house retains bressumer beam with cut out for door head; stop-chamfered spine beam; arcade post now adjacent to end wall of later house has brace to arcade plate and supports old principal rafter truss. Position of arcade post suggests the C17 house was truncated by the C18 addition. Owned by Francis Wood "who in the year 1713 gave forty pounds secured on an estate called Wellhouse in The Lordship of Wortley". The charity is still administered, giving £2 annually for the poor of Wortley, and is known as the "Wellhouse Dole" (Barstow, walk 6).
J. A. Barstow, Fifteen Walks around Wortley, undated booklet.
Listing NGR: SE3061200280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334003
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barstow, J A, Fifteen Walks around Wortley, ()
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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