Powerhouse Adjacent to Home Farm (Partly Occupied By Wentworth Windows 'gun Park')
POWERHOUSE ADJACENT TO HOME FARM (PARTLY OCCUPIED BY WENTWORTH WINDOWS 'GUN PARK'), CORTWORTH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314605
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Powerhouse Adjacent to Home Farm (Partly Occupied By Wentworth Windows 'gun Park')
- Statutory Address:
- POWERHOUSE ADJACENT TO HOME FARM (PARTLY OCCUPIED BY WENTWORTH WINDOWS 'GUN PARK'), CORTWORTH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314605
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Powerhouse Adjacent to Home Farm (Partly Occupied By Wentworth Windows 'gun Park')
- Statutory Address 1:
- POWERHOUSE ADJACENT TO HOME FARM (PARTLY OCCUPIED BY WENTWORTH WINDOWS 'GUN PARK'), CORTWORTH LANE
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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:
- POWERHOUSE ADJACENT TO HOME FARM (PARTLY OCCUPIED BY WENTWORTH WINDOWS 'GUN PARK'), 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 39238 98013
Details
SK39NE WENTWORTH CORTWORTH LANE (south side, off)
4/82 Powerhouse adjacent to Home Farm (partly occupied by Wentworth Windows, 'Gun Park')
GV II
Powerhouse, now tractor shed and small factory. c1910. For the Wentworth estate. Dressed sandstone, graduated slate roofs. Tall, rectangular main block with corner chimney and double wing on uphill side; lower lean-to on downhill side. Single storey apart from 2-storey lean-to. Main block: large gable entry spanned by timber lintel, circular window above; shaped kneelers, gable copings; ridge lantern. To left 4-pane sashes to lean-to; to right, wing has C20 door and louvre. Rear : square, tapered chimney stack to left of gable has iron-banded and tabled cap. Iron-balustraded steps to door on right. Tripartite gable window with taller central light, casements. To left of stack a flat-roofed addition, refenestrated. To right: lean-to breaks forward with iron-barred window beneath 4-pane sash, hipped roof with stack to right at eaves, raking louvre. Right return : twin gabled, left gable with brick-lined recess with blocked arch, right gable with door in C20 boarding.
Interior : brick-lined; original machinery removed. Main block has tiled dado and travelling hoist; fabricated iron roof trusses.
Provided the electricity power supply for Wentworth Woodhouse (q.v.), also linked to the Fitzwilliam colliery at Elsecar. Coal-fired boilers housed in the wings drove generators within the main block. D.C. charge stored in batteries housed on stone benches within the lean-to. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SK3923898013
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335589
- 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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