Premises Of Woodlands Park Working Mens Club

A large house, now the Woodlands Park Working Men’s Club, dating from the late 18th century and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is believed to have been built for Thomas Bradford, a miller, and is said to be by William Lindley of Doncaster. The building is constructed of painted ashlar magnesian limestone with a Welsh slate roof. It is three storeys high, originally five bays wide, with two-storey, single-bay side pavilions set back. There is a plinth. A 20th-century door and overlight are flanked by 19th-century canted-bay windows with 20th-century glazing. A sill band runs across the first floor, supporting sashes with glazing bars beneath flat arches; the second floor has projecting sills to four-pane casements also beneath flat arches. An eaves cornice leads to a hipped roof with a central three-bay pediment and corniced ashlar end stacks. Each pavilion features an impost band to a round-arched recess with an altered window, a continued first-floor sill band from the main house, a sash with glazing bars, and a hipped roof. A 19th-century single-storey porch projection has a 20th-century door and side lights, sheltered by a deep band, cornice, and blocking course. Above the porch are painted windows and an eaves cornice that rises as a pediment. The right return of the building features this porch projection. The building’s group value lies in its historical associations with a local miller and its well-executed architectural details.