Reform Row
106-160, Wath Road, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8JF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315024
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Reform Row
- Statutory Address:
- 106-160, Wath Road, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8JF
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315024
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Reform Row
- Statutory Address 1:
- 106-160, Wath Road, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8JF
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:
- 106-160, Wath Road, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8JF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE3879700348
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 26/10/2020
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HOYLAND NETHER
Elsecar
WATH ROAD (west side)
Nos 106 to 160 (even) Reform Row
23.4.74
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II
Planned terrace. Dated 1837, for the Fitzwilliam estate.
MATERIALS: rubble sandstone with Welsh slate covering.
EXTERIOR: the terrace of 28 cottages forms a long, curved, two-storey row with a total of 31 windows to the first-floor. To the centre of the terrace there is a round-arched passage with an oval plaque set above that is inscribed 'REFORM / ROW / 1837'. There are two other through-passages in the row. Front entrances have horizontally tooled lintels and are arranged in pairs, mostly fitted with boarded doors. Each dwelling has a three-light window to each floor, these having glazing bars, the central light generally being recessed. Above each passage there is an additional two-light window. The windows have concrete lintels and projecting sills. The end gables have kneelers, copings and brick stacks, in addition to the 13 brick-built ridge-stacks.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT: Reform Row is a notable housing development of the Fitzwilliam mining village of Elsecar:. From the late C18, Elsecar was the industrial village of the Earls Fitzwilliam, whose seat of Wentworth Woodhouse lies nearby. At Elsecar they invested in coal mining and iron working, erecting industrial buildings along with good quality workers’ housing and a range of other urban facilities including a church and school, all within what had been an agricultural landscape. The survival of many of these buildings makes Elsecar an important and significant place, telling the story of three centuries of coal mining, Christian paternalism, and industrial boom and decline. Workers’ housing provided by the Fitzwilliam Estate was regarded as being of a superior quality, for instance they were built with walled yards to both front and rear to provide private outdoor space in addition to the separate allotment garden that was assigned to each cottage. Reform Row was built for the Fifth Earl Fitzwilliam (1786-1857) who, before becoming the Earl in 1833, was an MP who supported the passing of the 1832 Reform Act..
Listing NGR: SE 38797 00348
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333890
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rimmer, J, Went, D, Jessop, L, The Village of Elsecar, South Yorkshire: Historic Area Assessment. Historic England Research Report 06-2019, (2019)
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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