Listing Text

SK39NE WENTWORTH WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE

4/116 Gateway with attached
plinth wall and ironwork
screen forming south side
of south court at
Wentworth Woodhouse

GV II*

Gateway with attached plinth wall and ironwork screen. Gateway c1630;
refixed and screen added probably in mid C18. For the Wentworth estate.
Limestone gateway; dressed sandstone plinth wall and ashlar piers; wrought-
iron screen. Set in straight line with south-facing gateway linked via
plinth wall and single ironwork panel to south-east corner of south wing
of Wentworth Woodhouse west front (q.v.); 3 ironwork panels to east of
gateway with linking plinth wall and intermediate piers and end pier.
Gateway in Artisan Mannerist style after a design by Dietterlin of c1584
(English Heritage). Square-headed opening flanked by fluted Doric
pilasters with alternate blocking; panel beneath, and scrollwork within,
tympanum of open pediment surmounted by pedestals and more scrolls.
Deeply-coursed plinth wall links corniced ashlar piers. Excellent
ironwork panels with bars interspersed with upthrusting barbed spikes;
elaborate frieze crested by scrollwork to spiked and foliate finials.

English Heritage, Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest
In England, South Yorkshire, Rotherham, Wentworth.

Listing NGR: SK3957797633