Birthwaite Hall Including Attached Range to West
BIRTHWAITE HALL INCLUDING ATTACHED RANGE TO WEST, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151765
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Birthwaite Hall Including Attached Range to West
- Statutory Address:
- BIRTHWAITE HALL INCLUDING ATTACHED RANGE TO WEST, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151765
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Birthwaite Hall Including Attached Range to West
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRTHWAITE HALL INCLUDING ATTACHED RANGE TO WEST, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD
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:
- BIRTHWAITE HALL INCLUDING ATTACHED RANGE TO WEST, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD
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:
- SE3006810473
Details
SE 31 SW
2/106
13.11.63
DARTON
HUDDERSFIELD ROAD
(East side, off)
Birthwaite Hall including attached range to west
GV
II
Large house and attached range, now divided. Probably late C17, remodelled
early to mid C18. East wing c1825 for Thomas Rishworth, some internal
decorations of early C20. Coursed square stone with ashlar dressings and
ashlar east wing. Welsh slate roof. H-plan. Two storeys and attics.
Entrance (north) front of 3+3+3 bays each range being gabled. Raised ashlar
quoins, moulded plinth and moulded band over each floor. The centre section
has a C19 ground-floor infill, in keeping, with central reset door. Single-
storey addition to left wing. Mainly 24-pane sashes, some of 30 panes.
Blind 1st-floor windows to left wing. 2-light double-chamfered window in
each gable apex. Chamfered gable copings. The garden front is similar but
of 2+3+2 bays, again with central ground-floor infill. The centre section
has 2 gables each with a 3-light double-chamfered window as do the gables of
the wings and the gabled inner return of each wing. The left return (east
wing) is Gothic in character and is of 5 bays. Central door. Tall ground-
floor sashes of 6 over 9 panes. 12-pane first-floor sashes. Gothic arcaded
frieze. Four buttresses rise as octagonal pinnacles, castelled at top.
Parapet and central gable are also castellated, Attached to the right return
is a series of single storey buildings the main front of which (south) has 3
sash windows with architraves and cornices and a C20 window in keeping.
Interior: Appears to be mainly early to mid C18. Original doorcase, within
the infill to north, with eared architrave, swept head and console brackets.
Bolection-moulded fielded panelling in hall, flat panelling to first floor.
Dog-leg, box-tread stair with ramped moulded handrail turned balusters,
possibly inserted c1825. Dark oak fielded panelling in room to ground-floor
right, with intarsia-work panel over red marble fireplace. Similar panelling
in room above.
Listing NGR: SE3006810473
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334233
- 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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