GATEWAY WITH ATTACHED PLINTH WALL AND IRONWORK SCREEN FORMING SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH COURT AT WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1193422
Date first listed:: 21-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY WITH ATTACHED PLINTH WALL AND IRONWORK SCREEN FORMING SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH COURT AT WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE
Statutory Address:: GATEWAY WITH ATTACHED PLINTH WALL AND IRONWORK SCREEN FORMING SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH COURT AT WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1193422
Date first listed:: 21-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY WITH ATTACHED PLINTH WALL AND IRONWORK SCREEN FORMING SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH COURT AT WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GATEWAY WITH ATTACHED PLINTH WALL AND IRONWORK SCREEN FORMING SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH COURT AT WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE

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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GATEWAY WITH ATTACHED PLINTH WALL AND IRONWORK SCREEN FORMING SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH COURT AT WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE

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 39577 97633

Details

SK39NE WENTWORTH WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE

4/116 Gateway with attached plinth wall and ironwork screen forming south side of south court at Wentworth Woodhouse

GV II*

Gateway with attached plinth wall and ironwork screen. Gateway c1630; refixed and screen added probably in mid C18. For the Wentworth estate. Limestone gateway; dressed sandstone plinth wall and ashlar piers; wrought- iron screen. Set in straight line with south-facing gateway linked via plinth wall and single ironwork panel to south-east corner of south wing of Wentworth Woodhouse west front (q.v.); 3 ironwork panels to east of gateway with linking plinth wall and intermediate piers and end pier. Gateway in Artisan Mannerist style after a design by Dietterlin of c1584 (English Heritage). Square-headed opening flanked by fluted Doric pilasters with alternate blocking; panel beneath, and scrollwork within, tympanum of open pediment surmounted by pedestals and more scrolls. Deeply-coursed plinth wall links corniced ashlar piers. Excellent ironwork panels with bars interspersed with upthrusting barbed spikes; elaborate frieze crested by scrollwork to spiked and foliate finials.

English Heritage, Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest In England, South Yorkshire, Rotherham, Wentworth.

Listing NGR: SK3957797633

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Legacy System number:: 335623
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.