Thornley Hall
THORNLEY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233359
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thornley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THORNLEY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233359
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thornley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNLEY HALL
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:
- THORNLEY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wolsingham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 11643 37093
Details
WOLSINGHAM THORNLEY NZ 13 NW 23/395 Thornley Hall
GV II
House. Early-mid C18; c.1905 extension. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins; roof of Welsh slate with ashlar chimneys. 2 storeys, 3 bays and right extension of 2 lower storeys and one bay. Central boarded door, with small inserted square light, in raised stone surround. Similar surrounds to sashes of late C19 type, those on ground floor wider. Flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to similar sashes in extension. Steeply-pitched roof has corniced end chimneys and slightly swept eaves.
Interior: mid-C18 panelling in ground-floor rooms; corner cupboard with shell hood. Open square well stair has ramped moulded handrail on turned balusters with shaped tread ends. 4-panel doors on ground floor, 6-panel doors on first floor. Panelled cupboards in first-floor rooms have dentilled cornices.
Listing NGR: NZ1164337093
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408817
- 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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