Hot Wall, Hot House And Camelia House East Of South Front Of Cannon Hall

SE 2708 9/5 28.5.70

CAWTHORNE BARK HOUSE LANE (north end, off) Hot Wall, hot house and camelia house east of south front of Cannon Hall.

GV II

Camelia house, hot-house and linking hot wall. 1761. The landscape gardener was Richard Woods. For John Spencer Stanhope of Cannon Hall. Red brick with ashlar dressings. The camelia house has a two-step stone podium and a segmental-arched gable with a large single segmental-arched window, with moulded brick surround. Moulded wooden cornice (part gone). The hot-wall to right steps down at intervals due to sloping ground and has stone coping. Partly rebuilt, no traces of fireplaces survive. At the right end, at each side of the hot house is a round-arched entrance with Gibbs surround of wrought-iron gate with delicate scrolls and flowers from a central vase. The hot-house is now roofless and has no glazing. 5-bay front with square ashlar-faced lonic piers, plain frieze, dentilled cornice and blocking course. In the rear wall is a segmental-arched entrance with gate similar to those in the hot-wall.

Barnsley MB., Cannon Hall Guide book.

B. E. Coates, The Work of Richard Woods, Landscape Gardener, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1963. An off-print of the transactions of Hunters Archaeological Society. Volume VIII, Part 5.

Listing NGR: SE2731408360