Banks Hall
BANKS HALL, WOOLSTOCKS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314695
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Banks Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BANKS HALL, WOOLSTOCKS LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314695
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Banks Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANKS HALL, WOOLSTOCKS 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:
- BANKS HALL, WOOLSTOCKS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Cawthorne
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 28107 06578
Details
SE 20 NE CAWTHORNE WOOLSTOCKS LANE (South end, off)
3/78 Banks Hall 18.3.68
II
Country house, now old people's home. Mid C18 with C17 wings at rear. Coursed, dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Stone slate roof. Two storeys. L-shape plan with wings and infill at rear. 7-bay symmetrical facade. Rusticated quoins. Central doorway whose eared architrave and console-supported open segmental pediment, have been brought forward to form a stone porch. 12-pane sash windows in moulded architraves. Aprons of first-floor windows extend to band above ground-floor windows. Moulded eaves cornice and blocking course. Hipped roof. Rusticated ashlar ridge stacks. Right return is similar but slightly plainer. The doorway has eared architrave, cornice on console brackets and overlight with radial glazing. Rear: C17 wing at right side, altered on its outer side but retaining several cross-windows to upper floor on the inner side. Hollow-chamfered gable copings on moulded kneelers. Shorter rear wings, with hipped roofs, also retain traces of early openings.
Interior: The central room, formerly the hall, is panelled, the panelling said to be from Cannon Hall. At the back of the hall two Doric columns support the landing of the excellent, dog-leg, open staircase, which has gadrooned, tapering balusters (2 per tread), ramped and moulded handrail and panelled dado.
Listing NGR: SE2810706578
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334204
- 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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