14, Cortworth Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1985. House.
14, Cortworth Lane
- WRENN ID
- burning-gargoyle-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rawmarsh and Conisbrough MP: John Healey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 14, Cortworth Lane, Wentworth
- OS grid reference
- SK 406 978
- Coordinates
- 53.47625, -1.38926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 14 on Cortworth Lane is a house built in the late 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed from deeply-coursed sandstone and features a facsimile stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and includes two first-floor windows with a wing at the rear. Large quoins are present, and the front wall has been extensively rebuilt.
The central entrance consists of a part-glazed door that is flanked by four-pane sash windows, all of which have projecting sills and lintels that are tooled as voussoirs. Above the door, there is an inscribed plaque set within a stone architrave. The flanking windows on the ground floor mirror those above but have flat arches. The end stacks are made of renewed brick.
The inscription on the plaque commemorates W. John Wentworth Fitzwilliam, who was born on August 7, 1852, and died on September 11, 1889. It notes that this boys' home was transferred to the Gordon Boys Home in 1900. Fitzwilliam, the son of the 6th Earl, was tragically killed in a riding accident at Wentworth Woodhouse. The building served as a memorial to him and provided a home for boys under Fitzwilliam's guardianship in the late 19th century.
There is an attached outbuilding to the left, but it is not of special interest.
Local climate
14, Cortworth Lane 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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