Water Department

WATER DEPARTMENT, WELBECK WOODYARD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1225153
Date first listed:
12-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:
Water Department
Statutory Address:
WATER DEPARTMENT, WELBECK WOODYARD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1225153
Date first listed:
12-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:
Water Department
Statutory Address 1:
WATER DEPARTMENT, WELBECK WOODYARD ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WATER DEPARTMENT, WELBECK WOODYARD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Nottinghamshire
District:
Bassetlaw (District Authority)
Parish:
Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck
National Grid Reference:
SK 55705 74077

Details

SK 5474 and SK 5574 WELBECK WELBECK WOODYARD ROAD Welbeck Estate Village (North side)

11/202 Water Department

G.V. II

Service buildings, c.1870. Ashlar. Slate roofs. Coped gables with kneelers and mannerist style orb finials. Moulded eaves band. Quadrangle plan. One and a half storeys, 7 bays. Central doorway, panelled double wooden door, keystone in flat arch and rusticated jambs. Flanked by single glazing bar sashes, single similar doorways and single similar sashes beyond. Above, 3 large, now blocked at the bottom, window openings alternate with 4 small openings, all have glazing bar sashes. Projecting from the left is an 8 bay wing, having 5 similar sashes and 3 similar doorways with 8 similar, smaller sashes above. Projecting from the right is a 7 bay wing, having a single doorway, 5 large doorways and a C20 doorway, all with wooden doors. Above are 7 small glazing bar sashes. Completing the quadrangle is a buttressed wall set on a plinth, coped and stepped. Broken by central entrance with single outer, Tudor style, arched doorways with wooden doors and hood moulds. The gables of the outer wings, of one and a half storeys plus attic, 3 bays, each have a central blind archway with arched rusticated surround and keystone. Flanked by single glazing bar sashes. Above are 3 similar, smaller sashes, the central sash being set slightly higher. In the apex is a single oeil de boeuf with raised ashlar surround and keystone at each of the cardinal points. All window openings have raised ashlar eared surrounds with keystones.

Listing NGR: SK5570574077

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
421047
Legacy System:
LBS

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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