Perimeter Wall With Gateway and Attached Outbuildings and Chimney to West and South of Cranford Hall
PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEWAY AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND CHIMNEY TO WEST AND SOUTH OF CRANFORD HALL, DONCASTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151166
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Perimeter Wall With Gateway and Attached Outbuildings and Chimney to West and South of Cranford Hall
- Statutory Address:
- PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEWAY AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND CHIMNEY TO WEST AND SOUTH OF CRANFORD HALL, DONCASTER ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151166
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Perimeter Wall With Gateway and Attached Outbuildings and Chimney to West and South of Cranford Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEWAY AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND CHIMNEY TO WEST AND SOUTH OF CRANFORD HALL, DONCASTER ROAD
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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:
- PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEWAY AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND CHIMNEY TO WEST AND SOUTH OF CRANFORD HALL, DONCASTER ROAD
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:
- SE 39464 05247
Details
SE30NE DARFIELD DONCASTER ROAD, (south side, off)
2/25 Perimeter wall with gateway and attached outbuildings and 10.8.82 chimney to west and south of Cranford Hall (formerly listed as 'Perimeter Wall and outbuildings to west and south of Cranford Hall').
GV II
Perimeter wall with gateway, chimney stack and attached outbuildings including stable now under conversion to house. C15, incorporating later phases of construction and now partly incorporated in outbuildings remodelled in late C19 or early C20. Rough-ashlar sandstone, stable- block partly timber-framed with some brick infill and stone slate roof. Wall around 3 sides of garden and forecourt with gateway in south side and 2-storey stable built on to west side; chimney stack (to Cranford Hall) at east end of north wall. Gateway: a chamfered, depressed, 4-centred arch with hoodmould. Flanking buttresses bear escutcheons of Bosvile and Cresacre beneath C17 ball finials. Wall ramps down to each side and continues to right as low retaining wall with chamfered plinth, offset band and stone coping. Wall continues to left of gateway (with gap) to join stable- block. Stable-block: outer wall exhibits various phases of construction. Offset band exposed. 2 rectangular loops beneath dripmould now cut into by C19 3-light mullioned window. Central part of 1st floor brick, now part-rendered, with, to right an exposed timber wall post and to left, an external stack on 3 corbels now truncated at eaves. Another inserted 3-light window to 1st floor left. North wall: massive offset chimney stack has infilled fireplace opening with roll-moulded jambs and damaged lintel with raised panel. Triangular- shaped relieving arch and round-arched hoodmould with decayed heraldic stops and central boss. Wall continuing to west exhibits fragmentary remains of a second external stack and has another stack corbelled out at ground level with to its left a blocked, chamfered 2-light mullioned window and to right a similar single light. Interior of stable-block: 1st floor retains 3 jowled wall posts built into perimeter wall. Wall plate shows peg holes for infill. 3 early king-post trusses, 2 with short curved braces to cambered tie beams, the other with straight tie-beam with peg holes for infill and one remaining chevron strut parallel to principal rafter. Trenched purlins, straight braces from king-posts to square-set ridge. The site and its history are fully described and illustrated in: J. Birch and P. F. Ryder, 'New Hall, Darfield', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol 154, 1982, pp81-98.
Listing NGR: SE3946405247
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333653
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 154, (1982), 81-98
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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