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Latitude: 53.4909 / 53°29'27"N
Longitude: -1.5298 / 1°31'47"W
OS Eastings: 431291
OS Northings: 399453
OS Grid: SK312994
Mapcode National: GBR KXR2.LB
Mapcode Global: WHCBY.GJQ5
Plus Code: 9C5WFFRC+83
Entry Name: Terrace Steps and Retaining Walls to Gardens of South Front of Wortley Hall
Listing Date: 4 December 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1192640
English Heritage Legacy ID: 334009
ID on this website: 101192640
Location: Wortley, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S35
County: Barnsley
Civil Parish: Wortley
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Wortley St Leonard
Church of England Diocese: Sheffield
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Terrace steps and retaining walls to gardens of south front of Wortley Hall
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II
Terrace steps and retaining walls. Probably early C19, for the Wortley Hall estate.
Rock-faced and ashlar sandstone. 2 sets of steps to each terrace on west side of
garden, the southern steps set on the cross-axis in line with central fountain (q.v.)
and a double flight of steps down to eastern terrace. A linked retaining wall lines
the east side of the garden and returns in a rounded-ended projection which links
with terrace immediately to front of house and itself has a double flight of steps
down to eastern terrace. Steps: nosed treads set between ashlar copings with blocks
set at head and foot. Upper flight of steps at east end of cross-axis is flanked
by rusticated round-headed openings and coped side walls, from these the retaining
wall returns in quadrants. Round-ended projection at north-east corner of garden
has rock-faced walling with projecting piers and moulded copings surmounted by
gadrooned vases. Lady Caroline Creighton, wife of James Archibald Stuart Wortley,
is credited with the surviving early C19 landscape scheme seen at Wortley Hall.
Wortley Hall, Labour's Home - 25 Years Souvenir, booklet p17.
Listing NGR: SK3129199453
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