Camellia House is a Grade II* listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1968. House. 1 related planning application.

Camellia House

WRENN ID
pitched-gallery-yarrow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Rotherham
Constituency
Rawmarsh and Conisbrough MP: John Healey (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 March 1968
Type
House
Address
Camellia House, Wentworth
OS grid reference
SK 390 976
Coordinates
53.47447, -1.41244
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Camellia House is an early 19th-century building that incorporates a mid-18th-century section at the rear, originally constructed for the Wentworth Estate. The facade is made of ashlar sandstone with brick returns and features a glazed roof. The central part of the 18th-century section is built from limestone and has a slate roof. The building is single storey with a main front that has three groups of three bays.

At the front, there is a plinth and stone steps leading up to the central three bays, which project forward. Flanking these are four Ionic columns that support full-height casements with glazing bars, which include a door. The outer bays are fully glazed with 40-pane sash windows, separated by Ionic pilasters that are doubled at each end. The facade is finished with a plain frieze and cornice, although the balustrade above bay six is missing, and the original statues and ornaments have been removed.

The rear of the building features a three-bay pediment with low side wings that are set back. It has a plinth, rusticated quoins, and a central bay. There is a part-glazed door beneath a keyed round arch, flanked by columns with alternate blocking. The outer bays have sash windows beneath keyed round arches, with an architrave and cornice that project above the keystones and columns, and a plain tympanum. Each side wing contains a six-panel door flanked by sash windows with glazing bars, flat arches, a cornice, and a monoclinal roof with a hipped end.

Inside, camellia beds are located on either side of the pedimented doorway leading to the rear room. The 18th-century section was noted to be in poor condition at the time of the re-survey.

Local climate

Camellia House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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