Powerhouse Adjacent To Home Farm (Partly Occupied By Wentworth Windows 'Gun Park')

SK39NE WENTWORTH CORTWORTH LANE (south side, off)

4/82 Powerhouse adjacent to Home Farm (partly occupied by Wentworth Windows, 'Gun Park')

GV II

Powerhouse, now tractor shed and small factory. c1910. For the Wentworth estate. Dressed sandstone, graduated slate roofs. Tall, rectangular main block with corner chimney and double wing on uphill side; lower lean-to on downhill side. Single storey apart from 2-storey lean-to. Main block: large gable entry spanned by timber lintel, circular window above; shaped kneelers, gable copings; ridge lantern. To left 4-pane sashes to lean-to; to right, wing has C20 door and louvre. Rear : square, tapered chimney stack to left of gable has iron-banded and tabled cap. Iron-balustraded steps to door on right. Tripartite gable window with taller central light, casements. To left of stack a flat-roofed addition, refenestrated. To right: lean-to breaks forward with iron-barred window beneath 4-pane sash, hipped roof with stack to right at eaves, raking louvre. Right return : twin gabled, left gable with brick-lined recess with blocked arch, right gable with door in C20 boarding.

Interior : brick-lined; original machinery removed. Main block has tiled dado and travelling hoist; fabricated iron roof trusses.

Provided the electricity power supply for Wentworth Woodhouse (q.v.), also linked to the Fitzwilliam colliery at Elsecar. Coal-fired boilers housed in the wings drove generators within the main block. D.C. charge stored in batteries housed on stone benches within the lean-to. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SK3923898013