Ruins of Thorpe Salvin Hall
RUINS OF THORPE SALVIN HALL, LADYFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1286372
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Thorpe Salvin Hall
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF THORPE SALVIN HALL, LADYFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1286372
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Thorpe Salvin Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF THORPE SALVIN HALL, LADYFIELD ROAD
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:
- RUINS OF THORPE SALVIN HALL, LADYFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorpe Salvin
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 52139 81266
Details
THORPE SALVIN LADYFIELD ROAD SK58SW (north side, off) 5/77 Ruins of Thorpe Salvin 29.7.66 Hall (formerly listed as part of Ruins of Thorpe Salvin Hall and gatehouse)
GV II*
Ruined mansion. Mid-late C16. For Hercy Sandford (d1582). Rubble limestone, no roof. 3-storey, 9-bay symmetrical south wall of courtyard-plan mansion having round corner turrets, projections for external stacks and central porch; bases of rear corner turrets survive, that on right linked by section of plinth wall. In Tudor domestic style with transomed, ovolo-moulded mullioned windows mostly of 3 lights. Large quoins, chamfered plinth. Central porch projection has doorway with double-chamfered surround and Tudor-arched lintel with hoodmould; blocked 3-light mullioned window over has hoodmould. Transomed 1st-floor window with hoodmould now has wooden pigeon holes; transomed 2nd-floor window beneath dripcourse. 3 bays to each side have blind central stack projections surmounted by sections of mulled friezes and with diagonally-set stack plinths; bay 2 collapsed above ground floor. Turret at left end ruined, that on right intact and with windows set on the curve, 2nd-floor window without mullions, string course beneath rebuilt parapet. Right return: plinth remains and has projection for stop-chamfered doorway; base of turret on right. Left return: base of rear turret with chamfered square-headed doorway attached. Interior: rear of facade has large ground-floor fireplaces of which the relieving arches remain; triangular- headed fireplaces to upper floors. Heraldic panels on the gatehouse (q.v.) point to the date of construction being 1565-82. The building was sold to Sir Edward Osborne in 1636. His successor Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby lived there until after his marriage; he became Charles II's chief minister and was created Duke of Leeds in 1694 after which time the family moved to Kiveton Park. A scheduled Ancient Monument. M. Girouard, Robert Smythson and The Elizabethan Country House, 1983, p119- 20. J. Hunter, South Yorkshire: The History and Topography of the Deanery of Doncaster, 1828-31, p310. N. Pevsner, BOE, 1967, p515.
Listing NGR: SK5213481285
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335839
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hunter, J, South Yorkshire: The History and Topography of the Deanery of Doncaster, (1831), 310
Girouard, M, Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House, (1983), 119-20
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 515
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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