Miners' Welfare Institute

Miners' Welfare Institute, Welfare Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380321
Date first listed:: 17-May-2000
List Entry Name:: Miners' Welfare Institute
Statutory Address:: Miners' Welfare Institute, Welfare Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380321
Date first listed:: 17-May-2000
List Entry Name:: Miners' Welfare Institute
Statutory Address 1:: Miners' Welfare Institute, Welfare Road

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Miners' Welfare Institute, Welfare Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 53838 07444

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SE 5307 1487/11/10005 ADWICK LE STREET WELFARE ROAD Miners' Welfare Institute 18-MAY-00

II Coal miners' welfare building. 1924 with minor late C20 alterations. Red brick and render with faience dressings and Welsh slate roofs. Single storey. Main hall has prominent board roof with single storey flat roofed sections at either end. South-east entrance has nine window facade arranged 1:3:1:3:1. It has moulded plinth, sill band, corner pilasters and moulded entablature at the eaves. Central entrance arch with tiled internal porch, double glazed doors with sidelights and overlight. Arch has moulded keystone and ornate spandrels, flanked by panels and topped by a bold parapet with sunken panel inscribed "BRODSWORTH MINERS, 1924, WELFARE INSTITUTE" and flanking piers topped with scroll brackets. Either side three casement windows, the central ones double, all with glazing bars in the upper windows, all topped with faience tiled piers and wrought iron railings between. Set back on either side a single window with solid brick parapet above. Behind this facade a broad rendered gable with brick bands and a circular blind window. North-west playing-field front has similar single storey flat roofed section of eleven windows arranged 2; 3;1;3;2. It has similar faience decoration. Central doorway has double panelled doors toped with a hood and above a large overlight in pilastered faience surround. About another projecting central plaque again inscribed "BRODWORTH MINERS, 1924, WELFARE INSTITUTE". Side facades brick with alternating windows and doors.

INTERIOR: has single large hall with stage at one end. Either side rows of fluted Ionic columns support shallow curved plaster ceiling with Greek key ribs which is now hidden above a suspended ceiling. Original doors and doorcases survive and one section of the original panelled bar facade still survives.

Listing NGR: SE5383807444

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Legacy System number:: 480305
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.