Boathouse At North End Of Upper Fish Pond is a Grade II listed building in the Doncaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Boathouse.

Boathouse At North End Of Upper Fish Pond

WRENN ID
crooked-hall-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Doncaster
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1986
Type
Boathouse
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SE5493 0385 SPROTBROUGH CUSWORTH PARK

7/145 Boathouse at north end of Upper Fish Pond

II

Boathouse. Mid C18 for the Wrightson family of Cusworth Hall (q.v.). Limestone rubble and boulders. In grotto style. Segmentally-arched entrance to round-ended, vaulted recess admitting water from the landscape lake. Arch is of 2 orders of roughly-hewn.boulders. Vault rusticated by pendant through-stones. Upper surface firms landscaped mound.

Probably a part of the 1763 landscape scheme carried out by Richard Woods, surveyor of Chertsey in Surrey (Smith, p17).

G. Smith, An Illustrated History of Cusworth Hall and the Battie-Wrightson Family, 1976 ed.

Listing NGR: SE5492703859

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