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Latitude: 53.5545 / 53°33'16"N
Longitude: -1.4807 / 1°28'50"W
OS Eastings: 434501
OS Northings: 406560
OS Grid: SE345065
Mapcode National: GBR LW3B.7J
Mapcode Global: WHDCQ.7X5D
Plus Code: 9C5WHG39+RP
Entry Name: The Old Courthouse
Listing Date: 27 February 1975
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1151121
English Heritage Legacy ID: 333749
ID on this website: 101151121
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70
County: Barnsley
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Barnsley
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Barnsley St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
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SE3406NW
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BARNSLEY
Barnsley
REGENT STREET (north side)
No 12 (The Old Courthouse)
(Formerly listed as No 12 (County Court))
27 .2.75
GV
II
County Court. 1871 by T. C. Sorby. Ashlar. Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. Two storeys and basement. Seven x four bays corner site. Near-symmetrical facade, with rusticated ground floor and end bays of first floor. Square-headed basement windows. A flight of stone steps leads to the main entrance in bay seven in Doric portico which has deep parapet with cartouche. Double, panelled door. Square-headed sash windows in deep newels with cut voussoirs and dropped keystones.
The first floor is in the form of an Ionic colonnade with pilasters (to the blind end bays) and engaged columns, between which are five round-arched windows with balustrade beneath in architraves with pilasters and console keystones. Two tiny lights in the frieze. Full entablature with panelled and balustraded parapet. Hipped roof. Ornamental ashlar stacks with dentilled cornice and rounded caps. The left return is similar with entrance to left and two ground-floor windows. Three first-floor windows with square heads and triangular pediments on console brackets. Tiny lights in the frieze.
Interior not inspected.
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967.
Listing NGR: SE3450106560
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