Cobcar Terrace
162-180, Wath Road, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8JG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191318
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Cobcar Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- 162-180, Wath Road, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8JG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191318
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Cobcar Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- 162-180, Wath Road, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8JG
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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:
- 162-180, Wath Road, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8JG
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:
- SE3886500435
Details
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HOYLAND NETHER
Elsecar
WATH ROAD (west side),
Nos 162-180 (even) Cobcar Terrace
23.4.74
GV
II
Planned terrace. Mid-C19 for the Fitzwilliam estate with C20 additions to the rear.
MATERIALS: coursed, dressed sandstone, Welsh slate roof.
EXTERIOR: the two-storey terrace of ten houses has a symmetrical front elevation. The central four houses are flanked by pedimented houses, with two further houses beyond. The two houses at the centre of the terrace have their front doors together, these having fanlights with radial glazing bars, the openings being beneath peaked hoods that are linked with each other. Above, centrally placed, there is a single first-floor window which is blind. These central houses have a single window to both ground and first-floor. The other houses have overlights above their boarded front doors, these overlights having glazing bars forming saltire crosses. The pedimented houses have an additional first-floor window, set above their front door, and a glazed oculus with crossed glazing bars set in the pediment. Except for the hooded central doors, all openings have segmentally arched lintels that are tooled to imitate voussoirs. The ground-floor windows have sunken aprons. Windows have 16 panes and are vertical sliding sashes. The elevation is unified by a first-floor band and an eaves band with stone gutter brackets, these continuing under the copings to the pediments. The gable ends have ashlar copings supported by heavy kneelers. There are eight, stone-built ridge-stacks.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT: from the late C18, Elsecar was the industrial village of the Earls Fitzwilliam, whose seat of Wentworth Woodhouse lies nearby. At Elsecar they invested in coal mining and iron working, erecting industrial buildings along with good quality workers’ housing and a range of other urban facilities including a church and school, all within what had been an agricultural landscape. The survival of many of these buildings makes Elsecar an important and significant place, telling the story of three centuries of coal mining, Christian paternalism, and industrial boom and decline. The terrace of ten houses, Cobcar Terrace, along with the adjacent and very similarly designed 1-9 Cobcar Lane, were built after the 1849-1850 survey for the 1:10560 Ordnance Survey map, probably for the fifth Earl Fitzwilliam (1786-1857) who also commissioned similarly designed workers’ housing on Fitzwilliam Street. Workers’ housing provided by the Fitzwilliam Estate was regarded as being of a superior quality, for instance they were built with walled yards to both front and rear to provide private outdoor space in addition to the separate allotment garden that was assigned to each cottage.
Listing NGR: SE 38865 00435
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333891
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rimmer, J, Went, D, Jessop, L, The Village of Elsecar, South Yorkshire: Historic Area Assessment. Historic England Research Report 06-2019, (2019)
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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