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Latitude: 53.5247 / 53°31'28"N
Longitude: -1.5196 / 1°31'10"W
OS Eastings: 431944
OS Northings: 403224
OS Grid: SE319032
Mapcode National: GBR KWTP.T6
Mapcode Global: WHCBR.MNLR
Plus Code: 9C5WGFFJ+V5
Entry Name: Gun Room
Listing Date: 25 February 1952
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1151066
English Heritage Legacy ID: 333919
ID on this website: 101151066
Location: Stainborough, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75
County: Barnsley
Civil Parish: Stainborough
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Silkstone All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Architectural structure
STAINBOROUGH
1800/1/44 WENTWORTH CASTLE
28-AUG-03 Gun Room
GV II*
Probably built as a banqueting-house or bath-house, used as a gun room in C19. Mid C18 with C19 alterations. Built for the Wentworth Castle estate. Red brick, ashlar sandstone dressings. Modillioned ashlar cornice, hipped Welsh slate roof. Square, single-storey building. Main facade: ashlar plinth and sill band. Central projection with badly-weathered Doric Venetian window having paired side lights, the outer lights blind, and one inner light with margin-light glazing; frieze with triglyphs and bucrania, open pediment encloses round-arched head of central light. Right return: original doorway with architrave and pediment on left; to right, late C19 hipped-roof canopy supported by sturdy wooden posts and matching old 18-pane sash.
INTERIOR: remains of fine mid-C18 plasterwork. Curved entrance apse with moulded plaster doorcase with Vitruvian scrolls beneath cornices. Corinthian-columned side screens each with section of entablature carried over beneath a shallow segmental arch. Octagonal ceiling bosses in apsidal end bay decorated with flowers. Smaller tiled room to rear.
Listing NGR: SE3194403224
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