Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council

Information about the history and the layout of Doncaster's Mansion House.

Doncaster's elegant Mansion House, a focus for civic pride, has dominated the High Street for over two hundred and fifty years.

It is one of only four surviving civic Mansion Houses in the country.

the first was built by the corporation of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1691, but was demolished in the redevelopment of the town centre in the mid-nineteenth century
York began its own mansion house in 1725
followed by London in 1739 and finally by Bristol in 1783
the Bristol mansion house was built solely as a home for the mayor and the mansion houses of London and York provided accommodation for the mayor as one of their functions.
Doncaster Mansion House, however, was designed as a place for corporate entertaining and, although there were several rooms to provide living accommodation, the house was never intended as a residence for the mayor in his year of office, although a few mayors made use of the rooms for this purpose.