Needles Eye
NEEDLES EYE, COALEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1314588
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Needles Eye
- Statutory Address:
- NEEDLES EYE, COALEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1314588
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Needles Eye
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEEDLES EYE, COALEY LANE
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:
- NEEDLES EYE, COALEY LANE
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 39622 98821
Details
SOUTH YORKSHIRE ROTHERHAM 5097
SK39NE BRAMPTON BIERLOW COALEY LANE SK39629883 (west side, off)
4/1 Needle's Eye (formerly listed 29.3.68 under North Avenue, Wentworth)
II*
Folly. Mid-late C18. Attributed to John Carr (Wragg; Jones, p90) but clearly shown on an engraving of c1730. For the Wentworth estate. Ashlar sandstone. Tall, square pyramid pierced, on the axis of a former avenue to Wentworth Park North Lodge (q.v.), by a narrow, ogee carriage arch. Plinth, impost band, moulded voussoirs (partly renewed). At apex a square plinth to an elaborate vase entwined with foliage.
Engraving in York Minster Library, Topographical Prints, Wentworth.
Lyle Publications, Monumental Follies, 1972, p235 (photograph).
B. Jones, Follies and Grottoes, 1974 ed., pp85-86 and p90.
R. B. Wragg, 'The Life and Works of John Carr of York: Palladian Architect' unpublished thesis, 1975, University of Sheffield, vol. 3, appendix A, unpaginated.
Listing NGR: SK3962298821
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335510
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wragg, Brian, Worsley, Giles, The Life and Works of John Carr of York, (2000)
Jones, B, Follies and Grottoes, (1974), 85-6,90
Other
Monumental Follies, (1972)
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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