The Old Courthouse
The Old Courthouse, 12, Regent Street, Barnsley, S70 2EW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151121
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Courthouse
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Courthouse, 12, Regent Street, Barnsley, S70 2EW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151121
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Courthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Courthouse, 12, Regent Street, Barnsley, S70 2EW
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 Old Courthouse, 12, Regent Street, Barnsley, S70 2EW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE3450106560
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 October 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SE30NE
3/60
SE3406NW
8/60
BARNSLEY
Barnsley
REGENT STREET (north side)
No 12 (The Old Courthouse)
(Formerly listed as No 12 (County Court))
27 .2.75
GV
II
County Court. 1871 by T. C. Sorby. Ashlar. Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. Two storeys and basement. Seven x four bays corner site. Near-symmetrical facade, with rusticated ground floor and end bays of first floor. Square-headed basement windows. A flight of stone steps leads to the main entrance in bay seven in Doric portico which has deep parapet with cartouche. Double, panelled door. Square-headed sash windows in deep newels with cut voussoirs and dropped keystones.
The first floor is in the form of an Ionic colonnade with pilasters (to the blind end bays) and engaged columns, between which are five round-arched windows with balustrade beneath in architraves with pilasters and console keystones. Two tiny lights in the frieze. Full entablature with panelled and balustraded parapet. Hipped roof. Ornamental ashlar stacks with dentilled cornice and rounded caps. The left return is similar with entrance to left and two ground-floor windows. Three first-floor windows with square heads and triangular pediments on console brackets. Tiny lights in the frieze.
Interior not inspected.
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967.
Listing NGR: SE3450106560
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333749
- 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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