Wortley Arms

WORTLEY ARMS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1286455
Date first listed:
25-Apr-1969
List Entry Name:
Wortley Arms
Statutory Address:
WORTLEY ARMS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1286455
Date first listed:
25-Apr-1969
List Entry Name:
Wortley Arms
Statutory Address 1:
WORTLEY ARMS

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

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:
WORTLEY ARMS

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

District:
Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Wortley
National Grid Reference:
SK3074499360

Details

SK39NW
4/144
25.4.69

WORTLEY
WORTLEY VILLAGE
Wortley Arms

GV
II

Public house. Mid C18, later additions to rear. Coursed dressed sandstone,
Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with attics, 5 bays; C19 wing to rear, C20 addition
to rear right corner (not of special interest). Large quoins. Central doorway
has moulded quoins and cornice on brackets. Square-faced window surrounds,
mullions removed and with later sashes. Ground-floor sashes with C20 leaded lights,
bay 5 blind. 6-pane sashes to 1st floor, central window blind. Shaped kneelers,
ashlar gable copings. End stack to front-left corner; 2 rebuilt ridge stacks with
offsets and copings. Right return: doorway to right of window, two 16-pane sashes
above, paired 4-pane sashes to attic; all openings with cornices.

Interior: moulded spine beams in ground-floor room to left of door, bressumer
beam with cut-out soffit on right.

Listing NGR: SK3074499360

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
334020
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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