Rossington Bridge House and Attached Wall with Railings Rossington, England

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In the entry for the following: SOUTH YORKSHIRE DONCASTER 5096 SK69NW ROSSINGTON BAWTRY ROAD ( east side ) 7/66 No 329 ( Rossington 22nd April 1986 Bridge House) and attached wall with railings (formerly listed as Bridge Nursing Home and as on Great North Road) the following shall be added to the list description; Interior contains a good quality Mid C18 staircase with turned balusters and square panelled newel posts, moved to the right hand wing in the early C19 when a stick baluster stair, which still survives, was inserted in place of the original. The upper floor has 3 good quality C18 fireplaces with painted moulded surrounds and cast iron hob grates. The interior also retains almost all its original panel doors, some with their original L hinges.

SOUTH YORKSHIRE DONCASTER 5096 SK69NW ROSSINGTON BAWTRY ROAD (east side) 7/66 No 329 (Rossington 22nd April 1986 Bridge House) and attached wall with railings (formerly listed as Bridge Nursing Home and as on Great North Road) - II Coaching inn now house and disused nursing home. Mid and late C18 with early C19 addition and mid C19 alterations. Red brick in English and Flemish bonds; stone slate eaves courses to pantile roofs, partly Welsh slate. 2 storeys; 3-bay centre with lower 1-bay addition on left having rear outshut and low 2-storey addition of 1778 on right having early C19 rear wing. Mid C18 centre: central 6-panel door in Doric-columned wooden porch with triglyphs and light cornice; flanking C19 canted-bay windows with sashes of 8, 12 and 8 panes under hipped roofs having shaped Welsh slates. 1st floor: projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars beneath flat brick arches, one of the windows said to bear inscription 'John Turner 1778' (previous list description). Shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings; brick end stacks with bands and tabling. Late C18 addition on left: projecting stone sill to 16-pane sash in flush wooden architrave beneath flat brick arch; similar sash with glazing bars to 1st floor. Gable and stack on left as centre block. Addition on right: entrance to left has 6-panel door and overlight with radial glazing bars in corniced wooden doorcases bay window to right as centre block. Sashes with glazing bars to 1st floor; gable details on right as before. In front of right-hand part of main range and right wing is a low brick wall with chamfered stone coping and cast-iron railings with arrow-head finials. Part of the Doncaster Corporation estate until the 1830s. In 1764 the Corporation approved a plan by William Rickard for a house at Rossington Bridge and in 1783 gave instructions to prepare a plan for rebuilding the old part of the house at Rossington Bridge (Corporation Minutes); in 1789 the inn was advertised as 'now rebuilt'. It was called Rossington Bridge Inn but changed its name to the Corporation Arms sometime before it closed in 1850. Information from previous list description. Tom Bradley, The Old Coaching Days in Yorkshire, 1889, p23 (sketch).

Listing NGR: SK6297899521