High House
HIGH HOUSE, THORNTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150731
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- High House
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH HOUSE, THORNTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150731
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- High House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH HOUSE, THORNTON LANE
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:
- HIGH HOUSE, THORNTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornton-on-the-Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 53205 74082
Details
THORNTON-ON-THE-HILL THORNTON LANE SE 57 SW (west side) 5/78 - High House - II
Farmhouse. Probably C15, with late C16 or early C17 rear wing, mid-C18 addi- tions, and alterations dated 1884, the 1884 work for Sir George Orby Wombwell. Sandstone dressed in deep courses, C20 artificial slate roofs. T-shaped plan. Main range of 2 storeys and loft, 2 bays, with lower 2-storey wing to rear left, and with 2-storey lower addition of 2 builds set back to left. Central C20 part-glazed door below narrow overlight, flanked by C20 casement windows, that to right partly in surround of old window with relieving arch above. On first floor, 16-pane sash windows, and in centre a pointed-arched panel bearing date and ligatured initials of Sir George Orby Wombwell, surmounted by a unicorn's head. Rebuilt brick end stacks, that to right surmounting a huge stepped external stack. Rear: wing has been doubled in width. Left return: blocked single light first-floor window; C19 first-floor window; loft window. Right return: to rear of external stack, blocked single-light chamfered window with trefoiled cusping. Interior: in rear wall, now forming doorway to dairy in rear wing, Tudor-arched door surround with ogee and hollow mouldings on high stops; deeply-splayed window on first floor; c.1800 cast-iron fire-grate in bedroom of left wing. The site of a deserted medieval village is marked on the 1:10 000 Ordnance Survey map just north of the farm complex, and it seems likely that some medieval work survives in situ in High House.
Listing NGR: SE5320574082
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332788
- 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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