WORSBROUGH HALL (INCLUDING NOS 4 AND 5 WORSBROUGH HALL)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192532
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: WORSBROUGH HALL (INCLUDING NOS 4 AND 5 WORSBROUGH HALL)
Statutory Address:: WORSBROUGH HALL (INCLUDING NOS 4 AND 5 WORSBROUGH HALL)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192532
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: WORSBROUGH HALL (INCLUDING NOS 4 AND 5 WORSBROUGH HALL)
Statutory Address 1:: WORSBROUGH HALL (INCLUDING NOS 4 AND 5 WORSBROUGH 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:: WORSBROUGH HALL (INCLUDING NOS 4 AND 5 WORSBROUGH HALL)

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:: SE 35057 02843

Details

WORSBROUGH WORSBROUGH VILLAGE SE30SE 2/113 Worsbrough Hall (including Nos 4 and 5 11.11.66 Worsbrough Hall) GV II Large house now 3 dwellings. C17 of 2 builds, partially refenestrated. Ashlar sandstone, stone slate roof. U-shaped plan having gabled front wings, 2 short wings to rear of central block. 2 storeys, with attics,part 3 storeys, 1 : 4 : 1 bays. Chamfered plinth, continuous dripmoulds to each floor, 2-storey porch to right of centre has Tudor-arched doorway beneath cross-window and coped gable with apex finial base. Flanking bays have 4-light mullioned windows, single light on far right; taller lst-floor windows are transomed. Wing on left: higher ground-floor dripmould covers transomed 3-light gable window, cross-window to 1st floor, altered attic window opening, shaped kneelers and gable copings, truncated ashlar ridge stack. Wing on right: similar but of 3 storeys with 2-light 2nd-floor window beneath eaves dripmould. Rear: later additions to rear-right corner with projecting stack above having rebuilt shaft. Lateral stack to rear of central block with truncated wing to rear left. Rear gable of left wing has early leaded lights in corniced cross-window. Left return: 5 bays, transomed 3-light windows beneath sashes with glazing bars in square-faced surrounds. Right return: 6 bays, sashes with glazing bars except to ground-floor bay 3 having doorway and 2nd-floor bay 5 having casement. Interior not inspected. Occupied in early C17 by Thomas Edmunds, secretary to Thomas Wentworth, the 1st Earl of Strafford of Wentworth Woodhouse. Colvin (p641) notes that in 1775 John Platt did work on the drawing room of the house for Francis Edmunds. Remained in the family until 1831 (Wright, p15).

H. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 1978.

J. G. Wright, Worsbrough: In Times Past, 1983.

Listing NGR: SE3505702843

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Legacy System number:: 333989
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
Wright, J G, Worsbrough in Times Past, (1983)

Legal

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