Thornton Hall
THORNTON HALL, B 6279
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1121221
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Thornton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THORNTON HALL, B 6279
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1121221
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Thornton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNTON HALL, B 6279
- Statutory Address 2:
- THORNTON HALL, STAINDROP ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THORNTON HALL, B 6279
- Statutory Address:
- THORNTON HALL, STAINDROP ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- High Coniscliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 23818 16991
Details
NZ 21 NW HIGH CONISCLIFFE B6279 (Staindrop Road) (North side, off) 5/106 Thornton Hall 6/6/52 GV I Manor house now farmhouse. Front range c.1550 for Ralph Tailbois; c.1630 rear range for Sir Francis Bowes; C18 and c.1880 alterations and additions. Coursed rubble. Ridged concrete tiles and Welsh slates. Stone chimneys. Hall and projecting cross wing to right (left cross wing has been removed). 2-storey extruded porch at right of hall. Added right rear range. Narrower rear extension at left. Small c.1880 one-storey addition to left of hall block. Front range: 2 storeys plus attics; gabled hall and cross wing, both 2 bays wide; porch at junction. Porch has bolection-moulded doorway, sash and parapet with blank shields and gargoyles. Blocked round-headed light on left return of porch. First-floor sashes in moulded C18 surrounds, blocked in end bays. 3-light, partly-blocked mullioned windows, with arched heads under hoodmoulds, in attics. Embattled parapet at left and between gables. Steeply-pitched roof with coped gables. Corniced left end stack. Tall stack on valley to right. 3-storey right return of 2 builds with straight joint. Wider 2-bay front section: bolection-moulded doorway with pulvinated frieze and scrolled pediment; sashes and blocked cross windows in architraves, all but one under scrolled pediments; steeply-pitched roof behind parapet. 2-bay later rear section: 3-light mullioned-and-transomed windows, mostly part-blocked or sashed; floating cornices over with centres forming triangular pediments on ground floor and semicircular pediments on first floor; 4-pane light in eared architrave below eaves; low-pitched roof. Irregular left return: behind gable end of hall range is another gabled extension with chamfered window surrounds; main rear range has blocked or sashed 2- and 3-light mullioned windows, some with transoms. Twin-gabled, 3-storey rear has blocked or sashed 2-light mullioned windows and cross windows; low-pitched 2-span roof. One-storey, 2-bay c.1880 addition, on left of hall block, has sashes and a steeply-pitched roof. Interior: ground-floor hall (now kitchen and passage) has c.1550 chamfered oak beams with Flamboyant carving and cyphers referring to Ralph Tailbois. Early C18 panelling in ground-floor room at right. Mid C17 open-well staircase with closed string, bold turned balusters and moulded handrail; possibly late C17 columnar newel posts linking flights. First-floor subdivided bedroom has damaged late C16 plaster ceiling with intersecting ribs, fleurs-de-lys, shells and the Tailbois coat of arms. Front attic has plaster floor, studded partition wall and Tudor-arched wood door lintel with initials of Ralph Tailbois. Late C19 single-storey wing on left of front range is not of special interest. (G.A. Fothergill, "Thornton Hall", Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Volume III, No. 3, 1908).
Listing NGR: NZ2381816991
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110829
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle on Tyne in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle on Tyne, Vol. 3, (1908)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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