Beautifully Situated
We are situated in the beautiful rural estate village of Wentworth in South Yorkshire, home to Wentworth Woodhouse, the historic seat of the Fitzwilliam family, which with its 600ft frontage is the largest of any house in England and is truly South Yorkshire’s best kept secret.
Wentworth Woodhouse looms large over the village that spread outwards from its enormity. Quaint cottages painted in the estate’s distinctive green livery line every street whilst traditional country inns and working farms exist in much the way they have for decades.
The village itself and the wider area are littered with various ‘follies’, buildings of a more or less purely decorative nature. There are principally four great ones, Hoober Stand, Keppel’s Column, The Needles Eye and The Rockingham Monument together with several more of only slightly less importance.
The countryside around Wentworth is an attractive and productive rural landscape with traditional buildings situated amongst undulating farmland and deciduous woodlands much of which is accessible to the public today.
The estate is a leisure resource for a wide range of activities including walking, cycling, horse riding, fishing, shooting and drag hunting. As well as being grazed by sheep, the estate’s heather moorland on the western fringe of Sheffield is managed as a grouse moor.
Wentworth is a living, working community and boasts two beautiful churches, charming cottages, working farms, two well patronised country inns, several shops and craft businesses and is deservedly a very popular local visitor and tourist attraction.
The Follies
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Hoober Stand
A 100ft tapering pyramid structure with a hexagonal lantern designed by Henry Flitcroft and built by the 1st Marquis of Rockingham in 1747-8 to commemorate the defeat of the Jacobite rebellion. The inward taper of the upper part of the three walls creates an optical illusion that the structure is falling over.
