14, CORTWORTH LANE
14, CORTWORTH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314603
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 14, CORTWORTH LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 14, CORTWORTH LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314603
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 14, CORTWORTH LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14, CORTWORTH 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:
- 14, CORTWORTH 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 40633 97896
Details
SK49NW WENTWORTH CORTWORTH LANE (north side)
5/76 No 14
II
House. Late C18,altered C19. Deeply-coursed sandstone, facsimile stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Two 1st-floor windows with wing to rear. Large quoins. Front wall extensively rebuilt. Central part- glazed door flanked by 4-pane sashes with projecting sills all with lintels tooled as voussoirs. Inscribed plaque over door within stone architrave. Flanking windows as ground floor but with flat arches. Renewed brick end stacks. Inscription on plaque includes the words:
IN MEMORIAM
W. JOHN WENTWORTH FITZWILLIAM
BORN AUG 7 1852
DIED SEPT 11 1889
THIS BOYS HOME WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE GORDON BOYS HOME 1900
This son of the 6th Earl was tragically killed in a riding accident at Wentworth Woodhouse. The building served as a memorial to him and provided a home for boys taken into Fitzwilliam guardianship in the late C19.
Attached outbuilding to left not of special interest.
Listing NGR: SK4063397896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335584
- 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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