List Entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: BOATHOUSE AT SOUTH WEST END OF LAKE IN GROUNDS OF KETTLETHORPE HALL

List Entry Number: 1258156

Location

BOATHOUSE AT SOUTH WEST END OF LAKE IN GROUNDS OF KETTLETHORPE HALL, BARNSLEY ROAD
BOATHOUSE AT SOUTH WEST END OF LAKE IN GROUNDS OF KETTLETHORPE HALL, KETTLETHORPE HALL DRIVE

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
District: Wakefield
District Type: Metropolitan Authority
Parish: Non Civil Parish

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II*

Date first listed: 14-Jul-1953

Date of most recent amendment: 01-Feb-1979

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Legacy System: LBS

UID: 444451

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List Entry Description

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History

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Details

1. 5115 SE 31 NW 13/42 14.7.53

KETTLETHORPE HALL DRIVE (West side) off Barnsley Road Boathouse at south-west end of Lake in grounds of Kettlethorpe Hall (formerly listed as small Building)

II*

2. Incorporates a scheduled Ancient Monument, namely the original facade of St Mary's chapel on Wakefield Bridge. Early-mid C18 garden house altered to form a boathouse and to accommodate the old chapel facade which was replaced by a reproduction in 1847. This stands above a broad, segmental-arched boat entrance with cut voussoirs. Five bays. Doorways alternate with tracery panels in ogee crocketed frames within gables. Slender panelled buttresses. Narrow outer bays have niches above. Frieze of five relief panels of life of Virgin is very badly weathered and the parapet mostly missing.

Listing NGR: SE3320716499

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Map

National Grid Reference: SE3320716499

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