BRODSWORTH HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1191614
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1968
List Entry Name:: BRODSWORTH HALL
Statutory Address:: BRODSWORTH HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1191614
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1968
List Entry Name:: BRODSWORTH HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BRODSWORTH HALL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BRODSWORTH HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Brodsworth
National Grid Reference:: SE 50595 07044

Details

SE50NW BRODSWORTH BRODSWORTH HALL

5/31 Brodsworth Hall 5.6.68

GV I

Country house. 1861-63. By Chevalier Casentini of Lucca, Italy for Charles Thellusson. Executive architect: Philip Wilkinson of London. Ashlar limestone, lead and slate roofs. 2-storey rectangular range having 9-bay entrance front and 13-bay garden front on left return; lower, double service wing set back on right return. Italianate style. Entrance front: rusticated ground floor, projecting quoins above. Transomed casements with roller shutters to ground floor; deep lst-floor band with 2-pane sashes above. Central 3 bays break forward and have tetrastyle porte-cochere with its columns now partly encased in concrete. Double door within has fanlight; side niches with lamp brackets have flanking pilasters. Balustrade with finialled urns. Central, lst-floor opening has architrave and pediment. Bays 2 and 7 have aprons, architraves and segmental pediments, plain reveals to other bays. Modillioned eaves cornice with balustrade having terracotta balusters and urns. solid parapet above central bays steps up and has sunken panel and cornice. Service wing set back to right has sashes with glazing bars and lst-floor band; cornice with blocking course; hipped roof with corniced, ashlar ridge stacks. Rear: 7 unarticulated bays. As front with flat- arched openings to ground floor, architraves and cornices to lst-floor openings, the central lst-floor window with pediment. Garden front on left return: 1:4:3:4:1 bays. As front, having central entrance feature with heavy architrave and cornice breaking forward over consoles; corniced panel above with urns. 4-bay sections break forward and have plain-ashlar walling with Gibbs surrounds, moulded string courses and cornices. 1st floor: architraved surrounds to all bays, central bays with pediments, end bays with segmental pediments, otherwise cornices. Balustrade with panelled parapets over 4-bay projections.

Interior: remarkable original scheme of decoration and furnishing survives intact. Scagliola columns to south hall and to screen of entrance hall. Original wallpapers and damask coverings remain. Principal corridor ends in a mirrored arcade with - bas-relief panels and is truncated by a painted-glass panel inserted by Philip Wilkinson. C18 work surviving from the old Brodsworth Hall includes-some panelled doors and fireplaces in the south hall and adjacent dining room.

Built from the proceeds of the controversial will of Peter Thellusson who died in 1797 but aimed to control his estate beyond the grave by leaving £700,000 with its accumulated interest to be inherited by the eldest great grandson following the deaths of all intermediate lineal male descendants. The history and interior of the house are described and illustrated at length elsewhere (Girouard, 1963 and 1971).

Mark Girouard, 'Brodsworth Hall': Yorkshire', Country Life, Oct 3, 1963, pp803-807 and Oct 10, 1963, pp876-879.

Mark Girouard, The Victorian Country House, 1979, pp236-242 .

Listing NGR: SE5059507044

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Legacy System number:: 334452
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Girouard, M, The Victorian Country House, (1971)
'Country Life' in 10 October, (1963), 876-879
'Country Life' in 3 October, (1963), 803-807
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 South Yorkshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.