Steeple Lodge
STEEPLE LODGE, LOW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151059
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Steeple Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- STEEPLE LODGE, LOW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151059
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Steeple Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- STEEPLE LODGE, LOW 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:
- STEEPLE LODGE, LOW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Stainborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 31862 03507
Details
STAINBOROUGH LOWE LANE SE30SW (south-east side)
1/30 Steeple Lodge (formerly listed as 18.3.68 Main Gate Lodge Wentworth Castle) GV II Lodge. c1775 for the 2nd Earl of Strafford. Coursed, squared sandstone, C20 cement-tile roof. In the form of a church with 3-stage tower adjoining drive to Wentworth Castle (q,v.); single-storey wing on opposite side. In Gothick style. Roadside elevation: tower has diagonal buttresses with ashlar quoins and offsets, pointed 2-light window with wooden Y-tracery glazing bars, plain-band hoodmoulds to this and glazed quatrefoil window above; tall 2nd-storey window of 2 lights with stone Y-tracery; ashlar band beneath embattled parapet with diagonally-set corner pinnacles. Crow-stepped lean-to addition to left of tower forms link to embattled single-storey wing having Y-tracery casement in pointed, ashlar surround. Lean-to addition to far left has matching window. Rear: ogee-headed doorway into lean-to against tower. Right return: similar doorway to lower stage. Interior not of special interest. Important building of the Wentworth Castle estate built to add interest to the former service entrance.
Listing NGR: SE3186203507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333905
- 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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