Boathouse at North End of Upper Fish Pond
BOATHOUSE AT NORTH END OF UPPER FISH POND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192774
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Boathouse at North End of Upper Fish Pond
- Statutory Address:
- BOATHOUSE AT NORTH END OF UPPER FISH POND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192774
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Boathouse at North End of Upper Fish Pond
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOATHOUSE AT NORTH END OF UPPER FISH POND
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:
- BOATHOUSE AT NORTH END OF UPPER FISH POND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Sprotbrough and Cusworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 54927 03859
Details
SE5493 0385 SPROTBROUGH CUSWORTH PARK
7/145 Boathouse at north end of Upper Fish Pond
II
Boathouse. Mid C18 for the Wrightson family of Cusworth Hall (q.v.). Limestone rubble and boulders. In grotto style. Segmentally-arched entrance to round-ended, vaulted recess admitting water from the landscape lake. Arch is of 2 orders of roughly-hewn.boulders. Vault rusticated by pendant through-stones. Upper surface firms landscaped mound.
Probably a part of the 1763 landscape scheme carried out by Richard Woods, surveyor of Chertsey in Surrey (Smith, p17).
G. Smith, An Illustrated History of Cusworth Hall and the Battie-Wrightson Family, 1976 ed.
Listing NGR: SE5492703859
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334566
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Smith, G, An Illustrated History of Cusworth Hall and the Battle-Wrightson Family, (1976)
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.
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