Oakwood Hall Including Balustraded Retaining Wall Attached To Portico

SK49SW ROTHERHAM MOORGATE ROAD (west side, off) 5/59 Oakwood Hall including balustraded retaining wall attached to portico - II Large house with attached wall, now offices of Rotherham Health Authority. 1856-59 for James Yates. Coursed, dressed sandstone, Welsh slate roof. Double-pile plan with contemporary wing to right, set back; various additions to rear. 2 storeys, 1:3:1 bays. Plinth. Central part breaks forward and has band-rusticated ashlar walling to ground floor. 4-pane sashes throughout. Stone steps to colonnaded Doric portico with paired front columns, plain frieze and mutule cornice surmounted by balustrade with end dies and gadrooned urns. 2-bay returns of portico have attached single columns, entablature and balustrade as front (no urns). Entablature returns above flanking windows of central part; balustrade cornice returns as sill band to lst-floor windows which have sill blocks and shouldered and eared architraves. Outer bays have shouldered and eared architraves to windows of each floor. lst-floor band and lst-floor sill band. Modillioned eaves cornice surmounted by balustrade with dies. Hipped roof with corniced stacks flanking central lantern, matching ridge stack to right. Wing to right, set back, comprises 2-bay link-block to 3-storey tower, archivolts to ground-floor windows, tower with hipped roof and cruciform stack. Returns of main range each have canted 2-storey bay. Curved retaining walls attached to each side of portico have balustrades with dies surmounted by gadrooned urns. Interior : inner entrance hall with tiled and marble floor; cantilevered staircase with cast-iron balustrade; arcaded landing. James Yates was a notable Rotherham industrialist being a partner of the Yates and Haywood foundry. C19 directories show that he had moved from Carr House to Oakwood Hall by 1859. Oakwood Hall served as a hospital during and after the 1914-18 war.

Listing NGR: SK4362590959