Description

SE40SW DARFIELD DONCASTER ROAD, (north side, off)

6/19 Middlewood Hall 14.10.64 II

Large house now 6 dwellings. C17 rear wall which shows evidence of earlier work in lower courses, extensive early C19 rebuilding, later C19 wing. Main range: ashlar sandstone, graduated slate roof with lead ridges. Wing: coursed, squared sandstone, Welsh slate roof. Main range: 2-storey, 3 : 3 : 3 windows garden front, 3 storeys to rear, deep plan. Wing: lower, 2 storeys with 2 windows and two 3-light oriel bays to 1st floor. Extensively rewindowed with C20 casements, part-glazed doors. Main range garden front: plinth at sill level. Shallow-recessed blind arcade with moulded imposts to central 3 bays. Right bay now C20 door with overlight in shouldered architrave with consoles, pulvinated frieze and cornice; similar surround to window of left bay. Central window emphasised by upswept shouldered architrave and pediment. 3 1st-floor windows in shouldered and eared architraves. Flanking canted bays break forward. Left bay has outer windows in architraves with pulvinated frieze and cornice, central window with upswept shouldered architrave and consoled pediment. Outer 1st-floor windows have large-pane sashes in plain architraves, central window with shouldered and eared architrave. Right canted bay similar but with C20 door to ground floor centre. Moulded cornice and ashlar blocking course continuous across whole elevation. 2-span hipped roof. Wing set back to right: ashlar plinth, quoins to right. Some ground- floor openings altered, now 2 part-glazed doors and 3 windows. 2 offset buttresses support moulded corbelling to 2 curved 1st-floor oriel bay windows each of 3 lights with moulded sills and cornices surmounted by pierced balustrades. Another window to right of each oriel bay. Right end of roof hipped, shouldered and corniced ridge stack. Rear: main range retains some C17 double-chamfered mullioned windows and dripmoulds to ground and 1st floors.

Listing NGR: SE4202904886

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)