Low Farmhouse 2 Farm Cottages and Adjoining Outbuildings
LOW FARMHOUSE 2 FARM COTTAGES AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS, 2, THORNTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137568
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Low Farmhouse 2 Farm Cottages and Adjoining Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- LOW FARMHOUSE 2 FARM COTTAGES AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS, 2, THORNTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137568
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Low Farmhouse 2 Farm Cottages and Adjoining Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOW FARMHOUSE 2 FARM COTTAGES AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS, 2, THORNTON 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:
- LOW FARMHOUSE 2 FARM COTTAGES AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS, 2, THORNTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stainton and Thornton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 47885 13737
Details
STAINTON AND THORNTON ROAD, NZ 41 SE (4713) THORNTON east side.
5/129 No 2 (Low Farmhouse) 2 farm cottages 23.6.66 and adjoining outbuildings - II Wrongly shown on O.S. map as Kell Gate. Farmhouse, mid/late C17, altered c.1800. Early/mid C18 farm cottages, byre and stable adjoining left and right, with mid-C19 extensions. Farmhouse and cottages now one house. Brick, in English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings. Rear and left return of farmhouse rendered. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings, shaped kneelers and rebuilt brick end stacks with stone dogtooth-moulded caps. Clay pantiles on cottages and outbuildings. 2 storeys, 3 bays defined by narrow pilaster strips rising from hollow-chamfered plinth. Central Victorian 6-panel door and overlight. All openings enlarged and surrounds added c.1800; architraves under bolection-moulded frieze and pediments, semicircular in middle bay, segmental in first-floor end bays, and with scrolls on first floor. Traces of original hoodmoulds flank window heads. Early C20 casements. Steeply-pitched roof has 3 small skylights. Lower left 2-storey 1-window cottage, entered from rear. Horizontal sash window with glazing bars, on ground floor; fixed-light first floor window. Lower 1-storey left byre has chevron-pattern breathers left of blocked door. Lower left extension. Right 1-storey, 2 window cottage, has horizontal sash windows with glazing bars, in altered openings. Slightly lower right stable and cart shed. Rear of farmhouse shows central staircase wing and horizontal sash windows with glazing bars. INTERIOR: early C19 dogleg staircase with stick balusters, turned newels, moulded handrail and shaped tread ends. Moulded handrail on wall. Panelled doors in wood architraves, on ground floor. Farm outbuildings east of farmhouse are not of special interest. Architraves and pediments possibly re-used from C17 Thornton Hall, demolished c.1800.
Listing NGR: NZ4788513737
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59851
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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