Old Thornville
OLD THORNVILLE, PLANETREE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1294065
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Thornville
- Statutory Address:
- OLD THORNVILLE, PLANETREE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1294065
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Thornville
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD THORNVILLE, PLANETREE 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:
- OLD THORNVILLE, PLANETREE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornville
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45630 54698
Details
NORTH YORKSHIRE HARROGATE 5338
SE 45 SE THORNVILLE PLANETREE LANE (east end)
7/68 Old Thornville 15.3.66
GV II*
Large country house. Mid to late C17 and C18. Red brick, Flemish bond, stone slate roof. Square block built around small inner courtyard. 2 and 3 storeys to south front, 6 bays. 8-panel double door with fanlight in bay 2, flanked by Tuscan columns supporting a semi-circular hood. Sash windows with glazing bars in flush wood architraves to ground floor and first-floor end bays. Five 6-pane sashes to third storey. Guaged brick arches and stone sills. Projecting first-floor band, stepped down to left of doorway. Projecting band at eaves level, with plain parapet with ashlar coping and 11 ball finials . End stacks and hipped roof over stairwell behind parapet. Rear facade: projecting square-headed opening to courtyard with blind window over. Flanking and upper-floor side-sliding sash windows. To right - the gable end is of 3 storeys, in rusticated and gauged brick. Moulded bricks used in string courses to first and attic storeys, blocked oeuil-de-boeuf windows flanking ground-and first-floor windows, and coping to Dutch gable. These features continue around to left end of left return, of 2 storeys and 3 bays. Interior: main door opens into hall with early C18 cantilevered staircase with later domed roof. The drawing room has mid C18 panelling and excellent carving with enriched doorcases and cornices. The Dutch House, Kew (1631) has the earliest instance of gauged brickwork and Dutch gables of this style in this country. Rusticated brickwork continued in use for a long period - see basement storey of Holkham Hall, Norfolk (1734-61).
Listing NGR: SE4563054698
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330647
- 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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