Description

TOWN OF DONCASTER SOUTH PARADE
SE 5703 SE (south side)

7/98 Nos 22 and 23
and 23a (formerly
12.6.50 listed as 2 separate
items)

GV II

House, now club and offices. Late C18 with minor later alterations. Stucco
with painted stone dressings and concrete tile roof. Central hallway plan
with rear staircase hall. Three storeys, with basement below 2 left hand
bays. 7 bays; three central bays slightly advanced with rusticated quoins
to ground floor, giant Ionic pilasters to first and second floors, pilasters
coupled to corners, and moulded pediment. Plinth. Steps up to central semi-
circular headed doorcase with 6 raised and fielded panelled door and traceried
fanlight in moulded architrave, below Tuscan porch with pilasters flanking
the door, plain frieze and modillioned cornice. To either side there are
12 pane sashes. First floor has wide sill band and 7 unequally hung full
height 15 pane sashes, each with segmental ironwork balcony to front, except
over the porch which has a similar style square balcony. Second floor has
three 6 pane sashes and 4 plate glass sashes in original openings. All ground
and second floor windows with projecting sills. Moulded cornice with blocking
course to side bays. Plain frieze over the pilasters and moulded pediment
to central bays. Roof is hipped to right and has rendered ridge stacks.
Right return has panelled door with traceried overlight to ground floor and
blind first and second floor openings. Interior of No 22 has moulded arch
through to rear stairhall which has cantilevered stone staircase with ramped
and wreathed handrail and alternating plain and interlaced panel cast iron
balusters. Ground floor has good acanthus leaf and vine cornice to left room,
reeded dado and panelling, and elliptical arch through to rear room with fan
motifs in the spandrels. First floor central room has reeded cornice and
bowed end, room to left of staircase has distyle in antis entrance. Panelled
doors in panelled reveals elsewhere.

Listing NGR: SE5790803125

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26425833

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)