Abbey House
ABBEY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314664
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey House
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314664
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY HOUSE
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:
- ABBEY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Maltby
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 54262 89871
Details
MALTBY ROCHE ABBEY SK58NW 7/51 Abbey House GV II Custodian's house to Roche Abbey. Early C19. For the Sandbeck estate of the Earl of Scarbrough. Coursed, squared, magnesian limestone, Westmorland slate roof. L-shaped plan having wing to rear right. In Gothick style. 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows to 1st floor. Chamfered plinth. 2 steps to central doorway having decorative panelled door and fanlight with cusped glazing bars in moulded surround with pointed arch. Canted single-storey bay window on right has sashes with glazing bars in chamfered pointed surrounds, band beneath embattled parapet. Bay-1 window has 2-light casement with cusped wooden tracery in pointed-arched surround. 1st floor: band linking with that of bay window, windows as bay 1. Eaves band beneath embattlements with roll- moulded merlons and with crocketed pinnacle at each end. Gable copings with end stacks. Rear: wing gable has 3-light mullioned window to ground floor and pointed attic window, shaped kneelers, gable copings and end stack. Right return: doorway into wing as front with window on right and over door as bay 1. Interior: square newels and turned balusters to contemporary staircase. Work was done at Roche Abbey for the 6th Earl of Scarbrough during the years 1807/08 (Beastall, p116) which probably included this house. A comparable structure surviving at Yews Mill (q.v.) has a date of 1806 inscribed on its attached bridge. T. W. Beastall, A North Countrv Estate, 1974.
Listing NGR: SK5426189869
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335926
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beastall, T W, A North Country Estate, (1974), 116
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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