Balustraded Retaining Wall Across East Front Of Wortley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. Retaining wall.
Balustraded Retaining Wall Across East Front Of Wortley Hall
- WRENN ID
- kindled-sandstone-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1986
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SK39NW 4/132
WORTLEY WORTLEY PARK Balustraded retaining wall across east front of Wortley Hall
GV II
Balustraded retaining wall. Probably early C19 for the Wortley Hall estate. Rock-faced sandstone retaining wall, otherwise ashlar. 18 bays of balustrading set between intermediate and end dies; steps and detached pier at north end, balustrade returns to enclose 3 sides of recess at south end of terrace. End and alternate dies each have moulded plinth, sunken panels and cornice; end dies and freestanding pier are surmounted by vases with fluted covers and foliage-carved knops, others with ball finials. Plain intermediate dies linked by panels of turned balusters on moulded plinth and with corniced copings. Massive console bracket supports northern end pier. Return bays at south end of terrace are blind. Lady Caroline Creighton, wife of James Archibold 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: SK3128999539
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