DINNINGTON HALL

DINNINGTON HALL, FALCON WAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1314652
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: DINNINGTON HALL
Statutory Address:: DINNINGTON HALL, FALCON WAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1314652
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: DINNINGTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: DINNINGTON HALL, FALCON WAY

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:: DINNINGTON HALL, FALCON WAY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Dinnington St. John's
National Grid Reference:: SK 52488 85686

Details

DINNINGTON ST. JOHN'S FALCON WAY SK58NW (west side) 2/2 Dinnington Hall I 29.7.66

GV II*

Large house now hotel. Early-mid C18 with alterations of 1752 for Henry Athorpe attributed to James Paine (Colvin, p610); later additions and interiors by John Carr. Ashlar sandstone, C20 cement tile and Westmorland slate roofs. Two storeys with attics, 5-bay symmetrical front. Plinth. Central porch with C20 part-glazed door, flanking pilasters, triple keystone and entablature which breaks forward. 2-pane sash over has architrave with keystone surmounted by carved bird. Flanking 2-storey canted-bay windows with 2-pane sashes separated by pilasters; moulded sills and, between storeys, string courses and 1st-floor band. Rain water heads bear date 1752. Cornice beneath parapet with ball finials over bays. Bays 1 and 5, treated as end-pavilions, each have rusticated ground floor with round-headed sash with glazing bars flanked by square-headed niches. 1st-floor band beneath sill band linking 2-pane sash in corniced architrave and-flanking semi-domed niches all set within a round-arched recess beneath an open pediment. Pavilions have hipped roofs that abut taller roof of central range having 2 wooden dormers, ashlar gable copings and corniced end stacks. Rear: 3 very large 2-pane sashes beneath flat arches, 6-pane sashes beneath eaves cornice, 3 round-headed dormers. Left return: large, plain, 2-storey canted-bay projection flanked by lower wings. Bay has round-headed windows with impost band, square-headed 1st-floor windows with sill band, cornice, hipped roof. Side wings: rusticated ground floor; Venetian window on right has blocked side lights. Right return: matching Venetian window beneath sash with glazing bars in corniced architrave flanked by semi-domed niches.

Interior: excellent decoration in Dining Room by John Carr: enriched 6-panel mahogany doors in corniced architraves with anthemion friezes; round-headed wall panels enclosing doors, 2 semi-domed niches, fireplace and window openings; anthemion dado and impost band; fireplace has iron basket in marble surround with architraved panel over; plaster vases in flat archivolts with armament panels between; plain ceiling. Stair hall with Doric-columned front screen, wooden-balustraded staircase, glazed oval lantern; C20 trompe-d'oeil decorative scheme. Drawing room: fine decoration in style of Dining Room: marble fireplace, oval ceiling panel with vases, ribbons and garlands. Former home of the Athorpe family.

H. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 1978.

Listing NGR: SK5248885686

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Legacy System number:: 335748
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.