Garage Shop At Premises Of Rossington Motor Co

SK69NW ROSSINGTON STATION ROAD (north side) 7/73 Garage shop at premises of Rossington Motor Co. GV II Slaughterhouse, later a butcher's shop and now part of garage premises. c1870 for the Rossington Hall estate. Painted brick, shaped and plain blue- tile roof. 1 storey, single cell; in High Victorian style. Offset side buttresses. Front has 3-bay canopy under catslide roof supported on curved, wooden braces (the left end brace replaced by an iron strut). Beneath the canopy is a door on right of 2 plainly-glazed shop windows set above wooden, latticed apron panels; over the door and windows is a decorative wrought-iron grill beneath a 2-centred arch with hoodmould. Hipped roof has alternating bands of shaped and plain tiles, a blind, gabled dormer and wrought-iron ridge cresting. Right return: latticed window on left has projecting sill and pointed arch; tall casement window on right. Left return: pointed-arched doorway (visible from interior) on left of pointed, latticed window. Formerly the slaughterhouse of Ivy House Farm before becoming a butchers shop by 1909 (Clarke, p.91). Probably by W. M. Teulon who designed many estate buildings for James Brown of Rossington Hall. F. A. Clarke, Rossington : glimpses into the Past, 1986 (plate). Collection of drawings by Teulon for Rossington estate in Doncaster Archives, King Edwards Road, Balby.

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