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The Pheasantries in Bretton Park

A Grade II Listed Building in West Bretton, Wakefield

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Latitude: 53.6119 / 53°36'42"N

Longitude: -1.5628 / 1°33'46"W

OS Eastings: 429019

OS Northings: 412901

OS Grid: SE290129

Mapcode National: GBR KVJN.FZ

Mapcode Global: WHCBB.YGYX

Plus Code: 9C5WJC6P+PV

Entry Name: The Pheasantries in Bretton Park

Listing Date: 22 November 1966

Last Amended: 21 June 1990

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1135464

English Heritage Legacy ID: 342589

ID on this website: 101135464

Location: West Bretton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4

County: Wakefield

Civil Parish: West Bretton

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Woolley St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


SE21SE
8/93
22.11.66

WEST BRETTON
PARK ROAD
(south side, off)
The Pheasantries in Bretton Park.

GV
II

House now 2 dwellings. Dated 1749. Probably by Sir William Wentworth for
his own estate. Coursed squared stone with quoins. Stone slate roof. Two
storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay facade, the centre 3 bays breaking forward
slightly and pedimented. Well detailed and proportioned giant Tuscan
Venetian window, centrally placed, with glazing bars to upper part. Entrance
to left and right (the former now totally glazed) and a further blocked
entrance to left. Two former 2-light windows to 1st floor and each end bay
has a former 3-light window to each floor that to ground floor left now a
patio door. All mullions removed. C20 casements. Sundial in tympanum of
pediment, no gnomon. Hipped roof. Two ashlar stacks. Rear: later addition
to right. Quoined entrance with well-inscribed lintel "WW 1749" (William
Wentworth). Four 1st-floor windows formerly with centre mullions (one only
surviving).
Interior: not inspected.
N. Pevsner. The Buildings of England. 1967

Listing NGR: SE2901912901

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