Entrance Gateway and Gates to Stainborough Park
ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND GATES TO STAINBOROUGH PARK, PARK DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315050
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gateway and Gates to Stainborough Park
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND GATES TO STAINBOROUGH PARK, PARK DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315050
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gateway and Gates to Stainborough Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND GATES TO STAINBOROUGH PARK, PARK DRIVE
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:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND GATES TO STAINBOROUGH PARK, PARK DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Stainborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 32559 03707
Details
STAINBOROUGH PARK DRIVE SE30SW 1/34 Entrance gateway and gates to Stainborough Park GV II Gateway and gates to Stainborough Park. c1768 for the 2nd Earl of Strafford. Coursed, squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, wrought-iron gates. Single archway with gates and wing walls. Rusticated quoins and voussoirs, impost band and band over arch, moulded pediment copings with ball finial bases. Wing walls have copings continuous from impost band and terminate in ashlar end piers each with band and ball finial base. Stone brackets rise from the wing walls to flank the central section. Old iron gates (possibly original) have dog bars beneath scrolled panel and more scrolls beneath curving top rail, all bars have spear finials. Ball finials now preserved in garden of Nos 1-3 (consec), Park Drive (Menagerie House) (q.v.). Formed the principal entrance to Stainborough Park from the north.
Listing NGR: SE3255903707
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333909
- 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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