PINFOLD

PINFOLD, WELL LANE

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Village pinfold or pound, mid C18 or earlier of limestone construction. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393847
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-2010
List Entry Name:: PINFOLD
Statutory Address:: PINFOLD, WELL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393847
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-2010
List Entry Name:: PINFOLD
Statutory Address 1:: PINFOLD, WELL LANE

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.

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PINFOLD, WELL LANE

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

District:: Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Burghwallis
National Grid Reference:: SE 53448 11793

Reasons for Designation

The pinfold at Burghwallis is recommended for designation at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a well-preserved example of an increasingly rare building type * For its historic interest as a surviving component of medieval open field stock management * It is an effectively intact pre-1840 structure * It compares favourably with other listed examples locally, with the added interest of a drinking trough.

Details

BURGHWALLIS

1487/0/10011 WELL LANE 17-JUN-10 Pinfold

II Village pinfold or pound, mid C18 or earlier of limestone construction.

PLAN: Roughly U-shaped formed at the end of a sloping lane leading from the village to the common fields. The south east corner is angled, while the south west is curved and contains an entrance. The east and west walls of the pinfold continue beyond the pinfold's northern boundary wall flanking the lower section of the former lane.

DESCRIPTION: The pinfold is roughly U-shaped in plan and approximately 5.7m wide. The enclosing walls are constructed of roughly-coursed limestone, with curved coping stones. The north wall, which has been strengthened by vertical orthostats and has steps at its west end, stands a few courses high and carries a modern sewerage pipe; on the south side, the walls rise to approximately 1.5m in accordance with the drop in ground level. The entrance, with a modern gate, is situated in the south west corner. There is a small stone-lined watering trough in the centre of the pinfold fed by a natural spring, and a later low stone built platform against the west wall.

HISTORY: Documentary evidence for the presence of a pinfold at Burghwallis can be traced through the Anne family Squire record to 1753. Here the Manor Court Book states that the pinder for the period 1753 -1758 was Thomas Mallinson. He was succeeded by his wife, Dorothy, who remained in post for the next 17 years. Records from the 1780 Burghwallis Manor Court Jury provide evidence for the holding of sheep, pigs and horses or beasts. It is considered that these records refer to the present structure located adjacent to former common grazing land and a quarry, the most likely source of its building materials. The form of existing field boundaries on the 1813 Enclosure Award map are thought to indicate the location of the pinfold at the south end of an access route from the village to the common fields beyond. It is not depicted on subsequent Ordnance Survey editions presumably as it had gone out of use at enclosure.

SOURCES: Margaret L.P. Burns `Burghwallis and Bentley: A Comparative Study of the Development of two South Yorkshire Parishes' http://burghwallis.com/pdf/Burghwallis%20%20&%20Bentley%20Full%20&%20Maps.pdf (Accessed 20-Apr-2009) B.M. Willmott Dobbie, `Pounds or Pinfolds, and Lockups: Beast and Man in Custody' (Bath, 1979) Edwin Pretty, Pinfolds in the Doncaster Borough `Yesterday Today: Doncaster's Local History Review' (Issue no.40 - April 2003)

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The pinfold at Burghwallis is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a well-preserved example of an increasingly rare building type * For its historic interest as a surviving component of medieval open field stock management * It is an effectively intact pre-1840 structure * It compares favourably with other listed examples locally, with the added interest of a drinking trough.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 505996
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.