Thundercliffe Grange
THUNDERCLIFFE GRANGE, GRANGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314599
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Thundercliffe Grange
- Statutory Address:
- THUNDERCLIFFE GRANGE, GRANGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314599
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Thundercliffe Grange
- Statutory Address 1:
- THUNDERCLIFFE GRANGE, GRANGE 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:
- THUNDERCLIFFE GRANGE, GRANGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 37865 93672
Details
SK39SE ROTHERHAM GRANGE LANE (east side, off) 4/41 Thundercliffe Grange - II
Country house,formerly a hospital now flats. 1776-85 by John Platt for the 3rd Earl of Effingham, later additions and alterations. Ashlar sandstone, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with attic (possibly of later date), 7 x 6 bays; low 2-storey service wing attached to right return set around quadrangle. Entrance front: 2:3:2 bays, central 3 bays break forward and have pediment to 2nd storey. Plinth. Enclosed central porch (added) has double doors flanked by paired pilasters, arms carved in panel beneath entablature. Flanking bays have sashes with glazing bars with projecting sills and cornices. lst-floor band, sashes as ground floor but without cornices. Cornice rises to form pediment with oeil-de-boeuf in tympanum. Attic: blocking course forms plinth to pilasters clasping angles and paired flanking central bays. 6-pane sashes, 2 inserted casements above pediment. Full entablature. Hipped roof with rendered ridge stacks: 2 to front ridge, 2 to left ridge; elongated end stack to right. Service wing to right has projecting sills to renewed casements and lintels tooled as voussoirs. Ridge stacks. Rear: tripartite porch with pediment. Outer bays bowed and with single tripartite window to ground and 1st floors (window to ground-floor left now with door). Similar window above porch has sill blocks and central feature beneath slight cornice flanked by sashes with glazing bars. Cornice with central broken pediment. Attic: 6-pane sashes to central and outer bays, inserted casements flanking central bay. Service wing to left now altered and cement-rendered. Left return of main house has enlarged doorway to bay 4 with fire escape to its left. Attic storey has paired pilasters flanking bays 2 and 5. Interior: entrance hall has 2 semi-domed niches and contemporary side-wall fireplace. Inner entrance hall lit by roof lantern and with cantilevered staircase with cast-iron balustrade; round-arched arcade to landing. Dining room to front right has plaster wall panels and marble fireplace in wood surround. Room to rear right has Tuscan-pillared division. Home of the Effingham family following their move from Holmes Hall near the developing Walker ironworks of Masbrough. Platt's journal (cited in Ross) records several visits to the Grange including one to dine with Lord Effingham on 25th October 1783, the probable completion date of the house. C. M. Ross,John Platt Mason-Architect, Clifton Park Museum, Information Sheet 11, 1984, p8.
Listing NGR: SK3786593672
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335676
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ross, C M, Information Sheet in John Platt Mason Architect, (1984), 8
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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