Thorntree Farmhouse
THORNTREE FARMHOUSE, A172
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294502
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Thorntree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THORNTREE FARMHOUSE, A172
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294502
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Thorntree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNTREE FARMHOUSE, A172
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:
- THORNTREE FARMHOUSE, A172
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Busby
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ5085206691
Details
NZ 50 NW
4/57
GREAT BUSBY
A 172
West side (off)
Thorntree Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, late C18 part rebuilding of earlier C18 house. Older
part behind coursed sandstone, remainder red brick in English garden
wall bond 4 and 1, with stone alternating quoins, on stone plinth.
Pantiled roof with stone ridge, copings and kneelers; brick chimneys.
Hearth-passage plan. Main house 2 storeys, 3 windows, irregular,
with lower 2-storey 1-bay downhouse. Wide boarded door in cross-
passage position. Modern flush casement to left with small 6-pane
sash above. Blocked doorway to right of centre. Replaced 16-pane
sashes under flat arches of sloped bricks with stone keys, that at
first floor centre probably an insertion. Small curved kneelers;
end chimneys. Rear elevation stone in lower part, 7 or 8 courses
above plinth. 2-brick band and brick above. 2 storeys, 2 bays,
irregular. 3 small blocked chamfered openings on ground floor, one
in fire-window position. One 16-pane and one tripartite sash;
upstairs a 12-pane and a tripartite window. Downhouse at right
raised by 8 courses in modern brick with 2 new windows, one in door
position.
Interior: 2 old chamfered beams, one in fire position, one on first
floor. Roof has stout pegged collar-beam trusses and trenched
through-purlins at 2 levels.
Listing NGR: NZ 50852 06691
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333115
- 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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