Thornley Hall Farmhouse
THORNLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, A181
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1158975
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Statutory Address:
- THORNLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, A181
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1158975
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, A181
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THORNLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, A181
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 36114 38385
Details
NZ 33 NE THORNLEY A 181 (South side, off)
4/37 Thornley Hall Farmhouse 20/2/67 II
Large farmhouse. Late C17 - early C18, possibly incorporating earlier fabric. Partly-rendered rubble, gables have some brick infill; Welsh slate roof with rebuilt brick chimneys. 3-storey, 9-bay front has roughly-dressed quoins. Late C19 4-panel door and 2-pane overlight in moulded surround in third bay and blocked doorway to right. Mainly replaced 4-pane sashes and some 12-pane sashes, all under flat arches of brick. Rendered square sundial centrally placed above first floor. Square 4-pane sashes to second floor. Steeply-pitched roof has coped gables with shaped kneelers; one ridge and two end chimneys. Later and lower rear of 2 storeys plus basement has replaced scattered fenestration.
Contemporary internal features include: 2 panelled rooms (one with apsidal cupboard, framed by fluted pilasters, built into wall); several 2- and 6-panel doors and 6-panel window shutters; 4-flight closed-string dogleg staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail; boarded kitchen door, with drawbar and sockets, set in Tudor-arched surround with large keystone (former rear doorway); rear basement has 2 cellars with brick tunnel vaults.
Outbuildings attached to rear not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ3611438385
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 109449
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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