The Round House
THE ROUND HOUSE, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314606
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Round House
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROUND HOUSE, MILL LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-08-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/05175/09
- Rights:
- © Mr David Clayton. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314606
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Round House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROUND HOUSE, MILL 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:
- THE ROUND HOUSE, MILL 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 37832 98613
Details
SK39NE WENTWORTH MILL LANE (south-east side)
4/100 The Round House
II
Tower mill now 2 dwellings. 1793, converted 1835 (Clayton). For the Wentworth Estate. Thinly-coursed sandstone, roof not visible. Truncated 4-storey cone with small concentric lean-to to south-west side. Plinth. Ashlar surrounds dressed to the angle and curvature of the cone. Mill Lane side : door in glazed porch. Inserted ground-floor window to left has a horizontal-sliding sash with glazing bars. In line above 3 windows, the lower two have casements with glazing bars, the upper window a horizontal-sliding sash. To right of porch a blocked, quoined, doorway now with small window; above a blocked square opening. Similar sets of openings placed diametrically opposite those described. Glazed porch to rear encloses doorway with consoled pediment. Continuous band and cogged course beneath coped parapet.
A.K. Clayton, 'The Wentworth Round-Houses', Trans. Hunter Archaeological Soc., vol 8, 1963, pp 229-233.
Listing NGR: SK3783298613
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335607
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society in Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society, Vol. 8, (1963), 229-233
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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