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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Date:: 2001-08-10
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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 335510
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Jones, B, Follies and Grottoes, (1974), 85-6,90
Wragg, Brian, Worsley, Giles (editor), The Life and Works of John Carr of York, (2000)
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.