Wadworth Hall and Attached Wing Walls
WADWORTH HALL AND ATTACHED WING WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1314863
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Wadworth Hall and Attached Wing Walls
- Statutory Address:
- WADWORTH HALL AND ATTACHED WING WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1314863
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wadworth Hall and Attached Wing Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- WADWORTH HALL AND ATTACHED WING WALLS
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:
- WADWORTH HALL AND ATTACHED WING WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wadworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 56711 97258
Details
WADWORTH WADWORTH SK59NE
5/69 Wadworth Hall and 5.6.68 attached wing walls (formerly listed as Wadworth with linked garden and forecourt walls)
GV I
Large house with attached wing walls, now offices. c1750 with early C19 service wing. By James Paine for Josias Wordsworth. Ashlar magnesian limestone, Westmorland slate roof. Double-pile plan with 3 symmetrical elevations. 2 storeys with attics, 4x3 bays with later 2-storey, 3-bay service wing on right and wing walls attached to each corner. Entrance front: central 6-panel door in architrave with double keystone breaking into consoled pediment; tall plinth forms sill to flanking sashes with glazing bars in corniced architraves. Outer bays have swept-shouldered surrounds to architraves of similar sashes beneath segmental pediments. ist floor: sill band; central semi-domed niche with shouldered architrave and moulded impost to archivolt with scrolled keystone; architraved sashes with glazing bars to each side have pulvinated friezes and cornices continued from niche impost. Outer bays have sashes as centre but with shouldered architraves. Modillioned cornice. 3 dormer windows with unequally-hung 12-pane sashes beneath segmental pediments. Hipped roof with ashlar stacks to rear of ridge. C19 wing on right has sashes with glazing bars and blind window to lst-floor centre; hipped end to roof on right. Wing wall to right: plinth continues from house around shaped wall having 6-panel door flanked by piers on left of a quadrant curve with domed niche; heavy copings with ball-final plinths. Left wing wall is similar but with open gate leading to left return. Rear: central canted-bay projection with tall round-headed sash with glazing bars in swept-shouldered surround to architrave, consoled pediment; canted sides have unequally-hung 15-pane sashes in architraves beneath floating cornices. Side bays each have pedimented sash. 1st-floor: sill band links corniced sashes with glazing bars; central sash set beneath a blind Diocletian opening. Wing walls similar to those at front but with their doorways surmounted by rusticated arches with keystones beneath pediments. Left return: central double doors beneath consoled cornice. 1st floor: balustrade across recess with Ionic Venetian stair window. Interior: entrance hall has Vitruvian-scroll dado rail; side-wall fireplace with tapered columns having drops from lions' heads, egg-and-dart surround, Vitruvian-scroll frieze and cornice with pediment; Rococo panel over has elongated cornucopiae. Opposite fireplace an architraved wall panel with cornice. Enriched 6-panel doors; that to former dining room in doorcase with oak-leaf frieze and consoled cornice; 4 other doors have eared and round- headed architraves. Stair hall, off to left, has cantilevered wooden staircase with wrought-iron balustrade of acanthus scrolls, wooden handrail; corniced plaster wall panels with egg-and-dart enriched architraves and swags of flowers and fruit; excellent Rococo ceiling with oval centre panel. Former dining room, to rear centre, has doorcase frieze carved with exotic fruit; fine marble fireplace similar to hall but with carved centre panel. Adjacent room also has excellent doorcases and fireplace. M. Girouard, 'Wadworth Hall, Yorkshire', Country Life, Sept.1,1966, pp 494-498.
Listing NGR: SK5671197258
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334843
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 1 September, (1966), 494-498
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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