31-37 Central Avenue
31-37, Central Avenue
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151516
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 31-37 Central Avenue
- Statutory Address:
- 31-37, Central Avenue
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151516
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 31-37 Central Avenue
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31-37, Central Avenue
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:
- 31-37, Central Avenue
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 53129 07876
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 November 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SE 50 NW
11/7
ADWICK-LE-STREET
Woodlands
CENTRAL AVENUE (east side)
Nos. 31-37 (odd)
GV
II
Group of four houses. 1908, partly altered. By Percy Houfton for the Brodsworth Colliery Company. Roughcast, later cement-tile roof. Two storeys, 2 : 4 : 2 windows to first floor; symmetrical composition with gabled end houses (Nos. 31 and 37). Casements with glazing bars to all original windows.
No. 31 (on left): round-headed doorway with rock-faced, stone-quoined surround flanked by windows of three lights on left and four lights on right; tile dripcourse rises over door; two three-light windows to first floor with tile dripcourse beneath gable.
No. 35, adjacent, has an old boarded door in doorway as No. 37, flanked by four-light windows under tile dripcourse; three-light windows to first floor set beneath eaves and lower than those of No. 37.
Nos. 33 and 31 are same but handed; No. 33 has later ground-floor windows; No. 31 has cross on gable plaque with hoodmould. Swept eaves. Brick end stacks corbelled from gables; three brick ridge stacks on the party walls.
Part of the Woodlands colliery village (see under Church of All Saints, Central Avenue).
Listing NGR: SE5312907876
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334871
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Davey, P, Arts and Crafts Architecture, (1980), 94
Town Planning Review in October, Vol. 50, (1979), 437-458
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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