Terrace Steps and Retaining Walls to Gardens of South Front of Wortley Hall
TERRACE STEPS AND RETAINING WALLS TO GARDENS OF SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL, WORTLEY PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192640
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Terrace Steps and Retaining Walls to Gardens of South Front of Wortley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TERRACE STEPS AND RETAINING WALLS TO GARDENS OF SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL, WORTLEY PARK
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- Date:
- 2002-07-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/05438/10
- Rights:
- © Paul Eggleston. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192640
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Terrace Steps and Retaining Walls to Gardens of South Front of Wortley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TERRACE STEPS AND RETAINING WALLS TO GARDENS OF SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL, WORTLEY PARK
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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:
- TERRACE STEPS AND RETAINING WALLS TO GARDENS OF SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL, WORTLEY PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wortley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK3129199453
Details
SK39NW
4/133
WORTLEY
WORTLEY PARK
Terrace steps and retaining walls to gardens of south front of Wortley Hall
GV
II
Terrace steps and retaining walls. Probably early C19, for the Wortley Hall estate.
Rock-faced and ashlar sandstone. 2 sets of steps to each terrace on west side of
garden, the southern steps set on the cross-axis in line with central fountain (q.v.)
and a double flight of steps down to eastern terrace. A linked retaining wall lines
the east side of the garden and returns in a rounded-ended projection which links
with terrace immediately to front of house and itself has a double flight of steps
down to eastern terrace. Steps: nosed treads set between ashlar copings with blocks
set at head and foot. Upper flight of steps at east end of cross-axis is flanked
by rusticated round-headed openings and coped side walls, from these the retaining
wall returns in quadrants. Round-ended projection at north-east corner of garden
has rock-faced walling with projecting piers and moulded copings surmounted by
gadrooned vases. Lady Caroline Creighton, wife of James Archibald Stuart Wortley,
is credited with the surviving early C19 landscape scheme seen at Wortley Hall.
Wortley Hall, Labour's Home - 25 Years Souvenir, booklet p17.
Listing NGR: SK3129199453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334009
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Wortley Hall Labours Home 25 Years Souvenir Booklet,
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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