7,9, WESTGATE
7,9, WESTGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192838
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 7,9, WESTGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 7,9, WESTGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192838
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 7,9, WESTGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7,9, WESTGATE
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:
- 7,9, WESTGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 42784 92733
Details
SK4292 ROTHERHAM WEST GATE (west side) 9/82 Nos 7 and 9 - II
House now shops and offices, mostly unoccupied at time of resurvey. 1794 by John Platt for himself (Potts, p19); altered. Ashlar sandstone facade, coated slate roof. 3 storeys, 1 : 3 : 2 bays in present form, central bays recessed; occupies corner site with left return, of later date, facing Main Street. C20 shop fronts to full width of ground floor infilling recessed central part. Tall lst-floor windows all with renewed casements in plain openings, projecting sills to outer bays, sill band exposed in bay 2. 2nd-floor string course beneath shorter window openings with unequally-hung 9-pane sashes, bays 5 and 6 now with iron casements. Continuous moulded cornice with ashlar blocking course. Left bay of roof altered. Left return: right bay rebuilt in keeping with main front. Buildings to left (also part of No 9) of later construction and not of special interest. Platt sold the house in 1808 but remained in occupation until his death on December 14th, 1810. The part of the house further to the left was demolished when Main Street was constructed. J. D. Potts, Platt of Rotherham, Mason-Architects 1700-1810, Sheffield, 1959.
Listing NGR: SK4278492733
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335718
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Potts, J D, Platt of Rotherham Mason-Architects 1700-1810, (1959), 19
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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