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Clifton Lane, ROTHERHAM, S65 2AH

Rotherham's municipal museum is in Clifton House - a Grade II listed building which was once the residence of a wealthy local industrialist and his family. It was built in 1783 and became the town's museum in 1891.

These flats have been here for an awful long time.

A typically refined job by John Carr, 1783-84, for Joshua Walker. Above the Tuscan porch is a Venetian window. A sill band runs between the floors with blind balustrades under the windows, a motif Carr often used. Grade II* listed. It has been owned by the local authority since 1891, and has served as a local history museum for most of that period. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the C18th architectural hierarchy, Carr (1723-1807) was somewhat more accomplished than most of the breed of skilled, provincial builder-architects of the Georgian era. Whilst not sitting at the top table of the London elite, he was the only provincial member of the London Architects' Club, and "was known and respected in the most sophisticated architectural circles" (Howard Colvin's Biographical Dictionary of British Architects). Based in York (hence his moniker 'Carr of York'), he was "for more than half a century the principal architect practising in Yorkshire and the north of England" (Colvin). His successful and lucrative practice was based very much on country houses for the gentry, the exteriors of which were generally plain but immaculately proportioned and the interiors of which largely followed the fashions set by Robert Adam. He also designed public buildings, churches, and bridges, the latter in his capacity as Surveyor of Bridges for the West Riding (1760-73), and later, as the equivalent (but better-paid) for the North Riding. Carr was also actively engaged in civic life, serving as a city chamberlain, sheriff, alderman, Lord Mayor, and magistrate. All this was achieved in the absence of any professional training - like his father, grandfather and great grandfather before him he trained as a stonemason. On his death, the practice was inherited by his assistant, Peter Atkinson, whose son in turn inherited, and remarkably the practice continues to this day, currently in the guise of Brierley Groom, making it, according to Wikipedia, "the longest running practice in the United Kingdom and probably the world."

Recovered from the site of the Roman fortress at Templeborough. The Latin inscription on the base of the middle stone has been translated thus - "To the spirits of the departed and Crotus Vindex, veteran of the Fourth Cohort of Gauls, forty years old, this monument was made and its inscription set down by Flavia Peregrina a most faithful wife for a most faithful husband."

The Garden House is a community building in Clifton Park. Beyond the window are the remains of Templeborough Roman Granary Image and Clifton House.

These remains of the Roman fort at Templeborough were moved to this site outside the Clifton Park Museum when steelworks were built on the original site in the Don Valley in 1917

The granary was part of a Roman fort at Templeborough, and the remains were moved here in 1922 when a steel works was built on the site.