Mechanics Institute Number 9 With Attached Meeting Hall
MECHANICS INSTITUTE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193060
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Mechanics Institute Number 9 With Attached Meeting Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MECHANICS INSTITUTE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193060
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Aug-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Mechanics Institute Number 9 With Attached Meeting Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MECHANICS INSTITUTE, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- NUMBER 9 WITH ATTACHED MEETING HALL, 9, MAIN STREET
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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:
- MECHANICS INSTITUTE, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 9 WITH ATTACHED MEETING HALL, 9, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wentworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 38750 98084
Details
SK39NE WENTWORTH MAIN STREET (south side)
4/91 No 9 with attached meeting hall (Mechanics Institute)
GV II
Mechanics Institute now house and meeting hall. 1844-45 (White's Directory). Deeply-coursed, horizontally-tooled sandstone; Welsh slate roof. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical front; tall single-storey wing to centre rear with addition to its right. Chamfered plinth and chamfered band beneath ground-floor sill level; clasping corner pilaster strips. 3 stone steps to C20 double-door in double-chamfered surround with Tudor-arched lintel and hoodmould. Flanking 3-light casements with horizontal glazing bars in deeply-chamfered surrounds. 3 similar windows to 1st floor; hoodmould to central window. Chamfered band beneath embattled parapet which steps up at centre above blank shield. Pilaster strips rise as embattled turrets. Left return: blind Tudor-arched opening to 1st floor; raking gable parapet; rear turret. Wing: tall, chamfered lights with renewed casements; end turrets.
Interior: ornate roof trusses in rear wing have cusped-headed subdivisions. C20 entrance lobby to left return and additions to rear right corner not of special interest.
Listing NGR: SK3875098084
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335598
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in Whites Directory, ()
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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