Lowe Stand
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| Lowe Stand | |
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Yorkshire | |
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 Lowe Stand | |
| Type: | Folly |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE36320097 |
| Location: | 53°30’15"N, 1°27’14"W |
| Village: | Hoyland |
| History | |
| For: | Thomas Watson-Wentworth |
| Folly | |
| Information | |
Lowe Stand is an 18th-century folly built for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, and likely originally intended as a hunting lodge.[1] It is situated by the town of Hoyland in the West Riding of Yorkshire, five miles southeast of Barnsley.
Today the Stand is a Grade II listed building[2] but is in a fairly advanced state of decay.[1] In 2008 the deeds were handed over from the council to voluntary group, the Friends of Hoyland Lowe Stand (now the Lowe Stand Trust).[3] The council has given permission to restore it according to the plan produced.[4]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The tower, the tourists and a new lease of life for heritage that crumbled away". Yorkshire Post. 10 August 2009. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/the-tower-the-tourists-and-a-new-lease-of-life-for-heritage-that-crumbled-away-1-2293407. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1151093: Lowe Stand (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Group hopes for a start on Lowe Stand". Barnsley Chronicle. 15 February 2008. http://www.barnsleychronicle.com/article/group-hopes-for-a-start-on-lowe-stand. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ↑ "Restoration of tower given OK". Barnsley Chronicle. 17 March 2013. http://www.barnsleychronicle.com/article/group-hopes-for-a-start-on-lowe-stand. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
